The poetics of enclosure
Subtitle: American women poets from Dickinson to Dove
By: Lesley Wheeler.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: American poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- United States.
Description: "In this critical study, Lesley Wheeler argues for a women's tradition in American lyric poetry characterized by figures of enclosure. She examines how six dissimilar yet interconnected poets employ this idiom: Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, H. D., Gwendolyn Brooks, Elizabeth Bishop, and Rita Dove."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [168]-183) and index.