The letters of Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson distinguished herself not only for her poetry but also as writer of letters sent to friends, relatives. ... Dickinson transcended not only poetry conventions of her time (by her free-verse, her particular use of punctuation and capitalization) but also epistolary ones, especially those for women, and the poems becomes the letter text (Tingle,2009). ... Poetry of the Nature In this poem Dickinson creates her characteristic fusion of nature and art, of the rose and the poem (Fart,Carter,2005). ... Erotic connotation of the poem However, even con...

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Emerson, however, recognized its greatness, and now most people agree that it was the first book of truly American poetry. ... After several years spent at various jobs, including building houses, he began writing a new kind of poetry and thereafter neglected business. ... Inspired by the suffering he saw, he wrote the volume of poetry called Drum-Taps', published in 1865 {Benet, 187}. ... Frost was named consultant in poetry for the Library of Congress in 1958 and received the Congressional Gold Metal in 1960. ... It is a poetry which literally begins in delight and ends in wisdom...

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The romantic writers replaced the static universal types of classical 18th century literature with more complex, idiosyncratic characters and a great deal of drama, fiction and poetry. ... He worked in about twenty different newspapers and magazines printing fiction and early poetry. ... It appears that Whitman's increasing frustration with the democratic party's compromising approaches to the slavery crisis led him to continue his political efforts through the more subtle and indirect means of experimental poetry, a poetry that he hoped would be read by masses of average American...

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On my reading, Emerson has his own more empirical, late natural history projects, work also left largely unfinished and generally neglected by critics because it, too, was found wanting, as Robinson suggests of Thoreau's post-Walden work, by a "New Critical celebration" of "formal and symbolic achievement." (9) I give particular attention to Emerson's late essay "Poetry and Imagination" (1875), a work whose commingling of natural science and natural history with a rhetoric of imagination recirculates various threads and pieces from Emerson's unfinished "natural history of the in...

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Henry David Thoreau Henry David Thoreau was a man who expressed his beliefs of society, government, and mankind while living under his own self-criticism. He drew off his own life experiences to write his works, but with those experiences were his transcendentalist points of view he was trying to get across. This is reason why he was misunderstood in his own time people, merely read his books and dismissed them as nature books, it is the same reason that many of today's younger generation think of him as a hero. Henry David Thoreau was born on the 12th of July 1817 in Concord, Mas...

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