 | Lyric Contingencies: Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens Subjects: American poetry -- History and criticism; Dickinson Emily 1830–1886 -- Criticism and interpretation; Stevens Wallace 1879–1955 -- Criticism and interpretation; In Lyric Contingencies Margaret Dickie brings Wallace Stevens and Emily Dickinson together to explore the ways in which the lyric genre is eccentric to, even disruptive of, the Emersonian tradition that has shaped American literary history. Dickie contends that although Stevens and Dickinson represent different moments of cultural crises, different genders, and different and private lives, they faced similar problems of expression and similar formal and cultural restraints in their devotion to the lyric genre. Dickie Margaret : Margaret Dickie is Helen S. Lanier Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Georgia. |
