For Wallace Stevens, "Poetry is the scholar\'s art." Susan Howe--taking the poet-scholar-critics Charles Olson, H.
D., and William Carlos Williams (among others) as her guides--embodies that art in her 1985 My Emily Dickinson (winner of the Before Columbus Foundation Book Award).
Giving close attention to the well-known poem, "My Life had stoo.
Howe shows ways in which earlier scholarship had shortened Dickinson\'s intellectual reach by ignoring the use to which she put her wide reading.
For Wallace Stevens, "Poetry is the scholar\'s art." Susan Howe--taking the poet-scholar-critics Charles Olson, H.
D., and William Carlos Williams (among others) as her guides--embodies that art in her 1985 My Emily Dickinson (winner of the Before Columbus Foundation Book Award)
