Title: Emily Dickinson's vision : illness and identity in her poetry /
Authors: Guthrie, James R.
Publisher: University Press of Florida,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Dickinson, Emily, Criticism and interpretation.; Women and literature Massachusetts History; Identity (Psychology) in literature.; People with visual disabilities; Heaven in literature.; Summer in literature.; Health in literature.; Sun In literature.
Abstract: In this original contribution to Dickinson biography and criticism, James Guthrie demonstrates how the poet's optical disease - strabismus, a deviation of the cornea - directly affected her subject matter, her poetic method, and indeed her sense of her own identity.