The recluse of Amherst, Emily Dickinson was one of the most original writers of nineteenth century America. Her brevity, compactness, conciseness, riddles, irony, ambiguity, epithets, hyperboles, new words coined by her, all have helped to change her style with life. She wrote of God, man and nature and knew love and death intimately as few ever did. This critical evaluation of her poems according to the thematic pattern reveals Emily Dickinson’s honest efforts at reconciling the finite with the infinite without sacrificing the integrity of the human soul. Certainly, the close interpretation of the textual units in this book will promote a better understanding of American poetry in general and Emily Dickinson’s poetry in particular. Since poems of Emily Dickinson are prescribed in the English syllabus of most of the universities of India, both the teachers and the students will find the book extremely useful, and the general readers, interested in poetry and themes like death, love, life, nature, etc. will find it stimulating and refreshing.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Neeru Tandon
Neeru Tandon did her M.A., LL.B., from Kanpur University. She has topped in her LL.B. Exams and won Gold Medal for it. She obtained her Ph.D. in India-English Literature in 191. Her research papers form part of several anthologies as independent chapters and have also appeared in several reputed journals. Her area of interest includes contemporary fiction-mainly Indo-Anglian, Afro-American, and Canadian Women Writers' writings in English. Presently, she is a Senior Reader at the Postgraduate Department of English, V.S.S.D. College, Kanpur. Women literature is an area in which she is carrying out her postdoctoral research work (D.Litt). She is has experience of more than eighteen years of teaching postgraduate students. She is guiding research scholars in various fields like Parsi fiction, Canadian fiction, Afro-American fiction and Indian-writing in English. Founder Secretary of Kanpur University Association for English-Studies, Dr. Tandon has several publications to her credit, which include critical commentary on R.N. Tagore's Muktadhara, Anita Desai's In Custody, and Mulk Raj Anand's Untouchable.
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