Emily Dickinson, In Her Time and In Ours

This seminar takes up life and times of a foremost lyric poets in world literature, Emily Dickinson, whose poetry explores like no other extremes of ecstasy and despair. In taking up these compact and powerful poems, we will track how the poet draws on the world around her, on nature, artworks, religion, on the history of her time, on conventions of love and elegy, on the joys and suffering of those around her, in the writing of her astounding works. Requirements: a midterm, a final, a term project, and class participation.