AGHHHH after today’s class. What drew me to Dickinson and Whitman to begin with was their role as “ethical nature writers” and I DO think this is a valuable way to look at their work. They both connect poetry and
Emily Dickinson and Responses to Modernism
The following quote comes from Chapter 1 of Shari Benstock’s Expatriate Modernism: Writing on the Cultural Rim. I’ve bolded the parts that feel particularly resonant with what we’ve discussed in class concerning early reactions to Dickinson. “In Gertrude Stein’s writing
Speaking to Whitman
Let’s keep adding to this list! Langston Hughes, “I, Too” Ezra Pound, Evil Godfather of Modernism, “A Pact” Allen Ginsberg, “A Supermarket in California” Sharon Olds, “Nurse Whitman” Sharon Olds. “The Language of the Brag” Larry Levis, “Whitman” (I do
The true nectar and other ramblings
Hi friends! So something I’ve been thinking about after reading Emerson is that the poet is supposed to be a “pure and simple soul in a clean and chaste body”. They’re supposed to ignore any substitutes of “the true nectar”,
