Dickinson's Misery: A Theory Of Lyric Reading (2005)

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Very interesting book that takes Dickinson's poetry as a launching pad for thinking about the category of the lyric. Jackson starts off by asking, how do we know that Dickinson wrote lyric poems? Or rather, what do we mean when we say something is a lyric? She critiques the twentieth-century critical assumption that the lyric is the master genre of poetry and that it is essentially ahistorical. The book sometimes feels like it goes in circles, but it asks engaging questions and produces good readings of a variety of familiar and unfamiliar poems.

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