Dickinson's Non-Holding, "Sumptuous Destitution" and Emerson

The backgrounds of Puritanism, transcendentalism and gender issues have been explored in discussions of Emily Dickinson's poetics of renunciation. Most notably, in his 1959's essay "Sumptuous Destitution," Richard Wilbur observes that Dickinson "elected the economy of desire...

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Published in:ANQ (Lexington, Ky.) Ky.), 2023-10, Vol.36 (4), p.593-599
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