Emily Dickinson

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An intensive reading of the work of Emily Dickinson in the context of her most important poetic predecessors and heirs. Other poets we will be reading will include John Donne, John Keats, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and Susan Howe. Students will be expected to have some familiarity with reading lyric poetry. Limited to 20 junior and senior concentrators in English, Comparative Literature, Literary Arts, French Studies, Hispanic Studies, Italian Studies.