Tuesday, October 1, 2024 | 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Jane Eberwein, author, retired Professor from Oakland University
In this introduction to America’s most recognized woman poet, who is also paradoxically our patron saint of unacknowledged genius, we’ll focus on the 1862 self-introduction Dickinson mailed to writer-editor-Abolitionist Thomas Wentworth Higginson. (Handout provided.) We’ll consider her distinctive literary characteristics and consider the still-debated question of whether she intended to publish her poems. Jane Eberwein retired as Distinguished Professor Emerita from Oakland University. She is the author of Dickinson: Strategies of Limitation, editor of An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia, co-editor of Reading Emily Dickinson’s Letters and Dickinson in Her Own Time.
Location:
Birmingham Next