These challenges she met would later contribute to the strength of her poetry. ... Dickinson's poetry was original and innovative. ... It also allows us to see the creative genius and peculiarity of her poetry. ... They both want their work to accepted and published on their terms. ... She writes what she wants and on her own terms. ...
Lola Ridge was a poet and champion of the working class. Born by Rose Emily and Joseph Henry on December 12, 1873, in Dublin, Ireland. When Lola was twenty-one she married Peter Webster. Peter was a gold mine manager. Lola's marriage failed so she moved to Sydney, New South Wales. She enrolled in Tr...
Rich goes on to say that a woman "knows" more than Shakespeare in terms of female characterization, which is undeniably true. ... Rich closes by speaking of the mood of "self pity" and "overt woman hating" that she claims pervades masculine poetry, but her essay seems rife with self pity of her own, and I would hardly call her sympathetic to men, at least not based on this text. ...
Terms such as "life,"" "reality,"" and "truth- are likely to be accepted and held up by any critic of her time, but how does Woolf understand them? ... He is so close to life and so able to see the real that "his poetry flows from him free and unimpeded-. ...
