Emily Dickinson: Woman Poet, Bennett Paula

This internationally acclaimed study is now republished with a substantial new introduction by the author.

It is a work of extraordinary finesse which offers a full-length study which integrates the poets homoeroticism into an interpretation of her poetry.

In this new edition Paula Bennett surveys other analysis by critics of Dickinsons work, and the conundrums these have raised.

Bennett illuminates Dickinsons desire to be a strong woman poet against the background of her situation as a 19th-century woman. The author provides clear, incisive analyses of Dickinsons poetry, with a wide-angle view of the poets cultural situation. She also gives sensitive discussion of Dickinsons sexual imagery.

It is a major contribution to our understanding of representations of female sexuality in Art and in literature.​