spinster's. No American poet of her time treated the theme of love with more candor than Emily Dickinson, and ... Emily was obsessed with the paradox of giving love in a Christian con­ text, Sylvia Plath, in her day of ... abstract philanthropy and empty beneficence, dramatizes the difficulty of knowing or accepting love. Emily ...

lyrics by an American of her century to a sensationalistic confessional. The cult which surrounded Emily ... tion. It was suggested that Emily held her father in something more than esteem, that her nephew bore ... man of the cloth, whose sinful proposals Emily herself dismissed. The most recent scholarship suggests ...