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Inflections of the Pen: Dash and Voice in Emily Dickinson

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From: Legacy
Date: 19981031
Author:Anonymous

By Paul Crumbley. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997. 212 pp. $22.95.

Teachers of Emily Dickinson's poetry often hear the refrain from students new to her work: "There are so many dashes!" Until recently, readers bewildered by the dashiness of Dickinson's poetry have gotten little insight from critics into this striking graphic feature of her texts. Critical thought about the significance of the dashes has been divided between the majority opinion that says that the dashes are truly accidental and meaningless, and the eccentric minority opinion, first advanced by Edith Wylder in ...

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