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March 20, 2016
A Loaded Gun: The Real Emily Dickinson :
But it’s hard to grasp how and where that sudden mastery arose. It had to come from more than craft. It’s as if she had a storm inside her head, an illumination, like a wizard or a mathematical genius. Dickinson was reinventing the language of poetry, not by examining poets of the past, but by cannibalizing the words in her Lexicon. Jay Leyda was the only one who understood this. In his introduction to The Years and Hours of Emily Dickinson (1960), he talked about the “omitted center” in her letters and poems—all the tiny ribs of language that were left out. But Leyda was much more optimistic than I am about where those ribs came from.
-- Longreads
Posted by gerardvanderleun at March 20, 2016 11:12 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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