Emily Dickinson

Oct  4         Dickinson—Vocation and Canon

Letters to Thomas Wentworth Higginson (L 260, 261, 265, 268); Letters on ED from TWH to his wife         (xeroxes); Fr 124 (“Safe in their Alabaster Chambers”), 204 (“I’ll tell you how the sun rose”), 304 (“The nearest dream recedes unrealized”), 282 (“We play at paste”), 778 (“Four trees upon a solitary acre”), 112 (“Success is counted sweetest”), 260 (“I’m nobody”), 675 (“What soft cherubic creatures”), 446 (“This was a Poet”), 788 (“Publication is the Auction”)
 
        7         Dickinson—Point of View, Voice, and Nature

Fr 122 (“These are the days when birds come back”), 207 (“I taste a liquor never brewed”; cf. Emerson, “Bacchus”), 320 (“There’s a certain slant of light”), 479 (“Because I could not stop for death”), 800 (“I never saw a moor), 1779 (“To make a prairie”), 145 (“A little East of Jordan”), 151 (“Papa above!”), 236 (“Some keep the Sabbath”), 849 (“By my window”), 721 (“‘Nature’ is what we see”), 314 (“‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers”), 130 (“Mama never forgets”), 373 (“This world is not conclusion”)

         14     Dickinson—Natural Spaces, Secular Places

Fr 145 (“A little East of Jordan”), 151 (“Papa above!”), 365 (“I know that he exists”), 670 (“One crucifixion is recorded”), 439 (“I had been hungry all the years”), 1263 (“Tell all the truth”), 1500 (“‘Heavenly Father’”), 1577 (“The Bible is an antique volume”), 1096 (“A narrow fellow in the grass”), 1482 (“Forbidden Fruit”), 1715 (“A word made flesh”)
 
        18        Dickinson—Feminism and the Myths of Nature

Fr 13 (“There is a morn by men unseen”), 161 (“The Daisy follows soft”), 225 (“I’m wife’”), 267 (“Rearrange a ‘Wife’s’ affection”), 185 (“A Wife at Daybreak”), 353 (“I’m ceded”), 745 (“Sweet mountains”), 857 (“She rose to his requirement”), 517 (“A still—volcano—life”), 764 (“My Life had stood a loaded Gun”), 1743 (“On my volcano”), 1691 (“Volcanoes be in Sicily”), 1776 (“The reticent volcano”), 194 (“Title divine”)