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Imagery in Poetry: Handout #2

Created in conjunction with Dr. Collins's English 1213 course.

Secondary Sources on Kilmer's Poem

Poetry criticisms, commentaries, & explications on Kilmer's Trees

 

from An Index to Criticisms of British and American Poetry (R 821.009 C61i):


Garlitz, Barbara. "Uprooting Trees." College English 23 (Jan 1962): 299-301.

Kenney, Blair G. "Woodsman, Spare Those Trees." College English 25 (Mar 1964): 431-433.

Nims, John Frederick. "The Greatest English Lyric?-A New Reading of Joe E. Skilmer's 'Therese'." College English 29 (Jan 1969): 322-331.


from American and British Poetry: A Guide to the Criticism 1925-78 (R 821.009 AL265a):


Beacham, Walton. The Meaning of Poetry: A Guide to Explication. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1974. pp. 2-3 (820.914 B38L)

Brooks, Cleanth and Robert Penn Warren. Understanding Poetry: An Anthology for College Students. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1938. pp.387-391 (821.08 B79u)

Brooks, Cleanth and Robert Penn Warren. Understanding Poetry: An Anthology for College Students. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1950. pp. 274-278.

Brooks, Cleanth and Robert Penn Warren. Understanding Poetry: An Anthology for College Students. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1960. pp. 288-289 (821.08 B79u3)

Brooks, Cleanth and Robert Penn Warren. Understanding Poetry: An Anthology for College Students. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1976. pp.?? (821.008 B791u4)

Fleece, Jeffrey. "Further Notes on a 'Bad' Poem." College English 12(6) (Mar 1951): 314-320.

Sawyer, Paul. "What Keeps 'Trees' Growing?" CEA Critic 33(1) (Nov 1970): 17-19.

Secondary Sources on Dickinson's Poem

Poetry criticisms, commentaries, & explications on Dickinson's Because I Could Not Stop for Death

 

from An Index to Criticisms of British and American Poetry (R 821.009 C61i):


Manierre, William R. "E.D.: Visions and Revisions." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 5 (Spr 1963): 5-11.

Wheatcroft, J.S. "Emily Dickinson's White Robes." Criticism 5 (Spr 1963): 144-145.


from American and British Poetry: A Guide to the Criticism 1925-78 (R 821.009 AL265a):


Privratsky, Kenneth L. "Irony in Emily Dickinson's 'Because I Could Not Stop for Death." Concerning Poetry 11 (Fall 1978): 25-30.

Savage, D.S. "Dickinson: Death: A Sequence of Poems." In Master Poems of the English Language. pp. 753-755.

 

from American and British Poetry: A Guide to the Criticism 1979-90 (R 821.009 AL265a):


Bzowski, Frances. "A Continuation of the Tradition of the Irony of Death." Dickinson Studies 54 (1984):33-42.

Green, John M. (no title) Explicator 49 (Sum 1991): 218-219.

Hockersmith, Thomas E. "'Into Degreeless Noon': Time, Consciousness, and Oblivion in Emily Dickinson." American Transcendental Quarterly 3 (Sep 1989): 279-281.

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