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———.
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The New Criterion
15.10 (June 1997): 26–33.

Abrams, M. H.,
112
,
242n.8
,
258n.68

address,
118
–
165
; on envelope,
16
; as figuration,
146
–
158
; as genre,
8
,
118
–
120
; historical vs. fictive,
133
–
142
; to “Master,”
190
–
196
; to “Misery,”
206
; modes of,
133
; multiple forms of,
63
–
67
,
68
–
92
; object of,
142
–
158
; of
Poems
, 1890,
126
–
128
; to “Sceptic Thomas,”
189
–
195
; as self-address,
129
–
133
.
See also
anthropomorphism
;
apostrophe

Adorno, Theodor, “Lyric Poetry and Society,”
98
–
99
,
256n.48

Aiken, Conrad,
95
,
128

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey,
27
–
28

Anderson, Amanda,
272n.22

Anderson, Benedict,
242n.7

anthropomorphism,
27
,
74
,
100
–
109
,
116
–
117
,
152
–
158
,
160
–
162
,
167
,
171
–
185
,
190
–
203
,
204
–
208
,
233
–
234
.
See also
address
;
apostrophe

apostrophe,
63
–
67
,
105
–
107
,
129
–
133
,
142
–
165
,
205
–
208
,
220
–
234
.
See also
address, anthropomorphism

Arac, Jonathan,
255n.37
,
257n.49

Armstrong, Isobel,
120
,
269n.10

Arnold, Matthew,
216
–
218

Atlantic Monthly
,
16
–
17
,
27
–
28
,
77
–
78
,
179
–
181
,
213
,
266n.14

Bahti, Timothy,
250n.43

Bakhtin, Mikhail,
55
,
244n.21
,
250n.50

Barker, Francis,
273n.34

Baudelaire, Charles: “Correspondances,”
101
–
109
; “Obsession,”
105
–
109

Beardsley, Monroe,
39

Beecher, Henry Ward,
68

Benfey, Christopher,
190
,
261n.19

Benjamin, Walter,
99

Bennett, Paula,
210

Berlant, Lauren,
271n.16

Bianchi, Martha Dickinson:
Emily Dickinson Face to Face
,
228
;
The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
,
95
;
The Single Hound
,
125
,
162
,
199
,
241n.1
.
See also
editions of Dickinson's poems

Bible, Gospel of John,
189
–
190

Bingham, Millicent Todd:
Ancestors' Brocades
,
241n.1
,
251n.55
,
255n.30
;
Bolts of Melody
,
31
,
34
,
36
,
71
,
77
,
245n.6
.
See also
editions of Dickinson's poems

birds: as figures of inhuman lyricism,
16
–
31
,
223
–
228
; paper,
228
–
232
; song of,
26
–
27
,
56
–
57
,
76
,
185
–
189
.
See also
Keats, John
;
lyric reading
;
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
;
Smith, Elizabeth Oakes

Blackmur, R. P.,
95
–
98

Blind, Mathilde,
83

Bowles, Samuel,
68
,
135
–
139
,
215
–
219
. See also
Springfield Republican

Brenkman, John,
256n.48

Brock-Broido, Lucie,
268n.37

Brodhead, Richard,
270n.16

Bromwich, David,
261n.18

Bronson, Bertrand Harris,
262n.34

Brontë, Charlotte,
187

Brontë, Emily,
Wuthering Heights
,
156
–
157

Brooklyn Eagle
,
68

Brower, Reuben,
99

Brown, Bill,
255n.28

Brown, Gillian,
62
,
251n.60
,
261n.21

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett,
187
–
189

Browning, Robert,
180
,
187

Bryson, Norman,
3

Buckingham, Willis J.:
Emily Dickinson's Reception in the 1890s
,
127
–
128
,
245n.27
,
260n.17
.
See also
reception of Dickinson's poems

Buell, Lawrence,
244n.19

Burke, Kenneth,
250n.48

Burns, Robert,
131

Butler, Judith,
234

Cameron, Sharon:
Choosing Not Choosing
,
42
–
45
,
58
,
150
,
244n.25
,
259n.70
,
263n.43
;
Lyric Time
,
41
–
42
,
143
,
154
,
155
,
233
,
272n.29

Carlo (Dickinson's dog),
79
–
82

Carson, Anne,
118
–
119

Castoriadis, Cornelius,
242n.7

Cavell, Stanley,
46
,
249n.37

Chase, Cynthia,
264n.51

Civil War, U.S.,
68
–
82

Clark, T. J.,
236

Conrad, Susan P.,
270n.14

Cornell, Joseph,
236
–
240

Crain, Patricia,
140
,
230
,
245n.3

Crane, R. S.,
255n.37

Crewe, Jonathan,
113

Culler, Jonathan,
102
,
157
,
246n.11

Cunningham, J. V.,
1

Curran, Stuart,
9
,
242n.8

Dandurand, Karen,
252n.3
,
253n.14

de Man, Paul, “Anthropomorphism and Trope in the Lyric,”
10
,
26
,
99
–
109
,
152
,
157
,
231
–
232
,
235
,
259n.71
.
See also
lyric reading

Decker, William Merrill,
260n.15

deixis,
133
–
135
,
157
,
192
–
203
,
207
–
208
,
220
–
222
,
227
–
230
.
See also
lyric reading

Derrida, Jacques:
Archive Fever
,
250n.46
;
The Post Card
,
262n.31
; “The Purveyor of Truth,”
13
,
244n.26
,
264n.59

Dickie, Margaret,
40
–
41
,
245n.4
,
263n.44

Dickinson, Austin,
4
–
6
,
11
–
13
,
87
–
91

Dickinson, Edward,
122

Dickinson, Emily, letters: to Samuel (or Mary) Bowles,
135
; to Austin Dickinson,
3
–
4
,
260n.10
; to Susan Gilbert Dickinson,
118
–
124
,
133
–
135
,
160
,
163
–
165
;
228
–
233
; to T. W. Higginson,
16
,
79
–
82
,
150
,
178
; to Elizabeth Holland,
151
,
264n.49
; to Helen Hunt Jackson,
62
; to “Master,”
190
–
196
; to Thomas Niles,
83
–
87
; to Frances Norcross,
62
; to Louise Norcross,
253n.15
,
265n.8
; to Mabel Loomis Todd,
87
–
92
; to Sarah Tuckerman,
62
.
See also
enclosures in and additions to Dickinson's writing

Dickinson, Emily, published poems by first lines: “A Pang is more Conspicuous in Spring,”
23
–
26
; “A Word dropped Careless on a Page,”
174
–
176
; “After a hundred years,”
170
; “All overgrown by cunning moss,”
187
–
188
; “Alone and in a Circumstance,”
166
–
171
; “Before you thought of Spring,”
62
–
67
; “But that defeated accent,”
32
–
38
; “Dying—to be afraid of Thee—,”
69
–
70
; “Further in Summer than the Birds—,”
74
–
100
; “I cannot live with you—,”
142
–
165
; “I did not reach thee,”
163
–
165
; “I think To Live—,”
147
–
152
; “If it had no pencil,”
135
; “ ‘Lethe' in my flower,”
198
–
199
; “Love first and last of all things made,”
34
; “My life had stood—A Loaded Gun,”
233
–
234
; “None who saw it ever told it,”
268n.41
; “On the World you colored,”
205
–
208
; “Prayer is the little implement,”
158
; “
Sic transit gloria mundi
,”
137
–
139
; “Soul, take thy risk,”
152
; “Split the Lark—and you'll find the music,”
185
–
190
; “The Merchant of the Picturesque,”
198
; “The most pathetic thing I do,”
160
; “There is another sky,”
2
–
4
; “These are the days when birds come back,”
75
; “They have a little odor that to me,”
71
; “This Chasm, Sweet, upon my life,”
220
–
228
; “To this World she returned,”
69
; “Whose cheek is this?”
228
–
233
; “You see I cannot see—your lifetime,”
155
.
See also
editions of Dickinson's poems
;
“fascicles”

Dickinson, Lavinia,
57
,
204
,
241n.1

Dickinson, Susan Gilbert,
68
,
76
,
87
,
118
–
124
,
133
–
135
,
159
–
165
,
228
–
233
,
241n.1