N. Hawthorne H. Melville Romanticism

E.Dickinson - she was from New England. Her poetry is phylosophical, metaphorical, full of symbolism. She is compared with poetry of confessional poets of XX c. She was influenced by transcendentalism, Shakespeare, Bible, the works of other women writers, Brontes. She discussed topics of religion, human nature, soul, faith, love. She created a very personal and original kind of poetry filled with existentional pain. The poems were irregular in rhyme and rhythm. She experimented with poetry, used visual images (volcano, snow) to express feelings and emotions, to create the atmosphere of emotional tension she used dashes. She was very shy, resorted after her parents died she lived in their house and didn't communicate with oher people. Dickinson lived an introverted and hermetic life. Although she wrote, at the last count, 1,789 poems, only a handful of them were published during her lifetime. All of these were published anonymously and some may have been published without her knowledge. Her poetry is often recognizable at a glance. Her facility with ballad and hymn meter, her extensive use of dashes and unconventional capitalization in her manuscripts, and her idiosyncratic vocabulary and imagery combine to create a unique lyric style. Although over half of her poems were written during the years of the American Civil War, it bears no overt influence in her poetry. Dickinson toyed briefly with the idea of having her life in her poems published, even asking Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a literary critic, for advice. Higginson immediately realized the poet's talent, but when he tried to "improve" Dickinson's poems, adapting them to the more florid, romantic style popular at the time, Dickinson quickly lost interest in the project.
By her death (1886), only ten of Dickinson's poems had been published.
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