National Review, July 17th, 1987
Emily Dickinson by Cynthia GriffinWolff (Knopf, 641 pp., $25) IN LITTLE MORE than an ample lifetime,there have developed two main critical attitudes toward Emily Dickinson: first, a more or less benign recognition of her poetic achievement; and, second, the quasi-political use of her life as a paradigm for suppressed womanhood in both the nineteenth century and our own. The exponents of these views have tended to divide along lines of gender. Male critics in the first half of this century, represented chiefly by Allen Tate in a landmark essay in 1928, were the earliest discerners of her geni...
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