Helen Vendler: Dickinson [2012] paperback ZPHIL powerful forces are already in

powerful forces are already in motion to take her life

offer little hope of finding Duncan alive

contains 16 brightly illustrated stories and perfect for bedtime story-telling

only to find that strange guests

What unites the stories are the twin ideas that an advantage can sometimes be a disadvantage and that a disadvantage can sometimes be an advantage

Helen Vendler: Dickinson [2012] paperback ZPHIL powerful forces are already inSeamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson. As she did in The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets, she serves as an incomparable guide, considering both stylistic and imaginative features of the poems. In selecting these poems for