Teaching Dickinson as a Gen(i)us: Emily Among the Women

In this article, Walker argues that those who teach the poetry of Emily Dickinson should not only compare her to other recognized and lauded American poets, such as Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Hart Crane, Wallace Stevens, and Marianne Moore. This method offers no cultural context to provide ligature. It views high art as to be only about language and, on the score of tropological discourse, any two poets could be connected, even across vast expanses of time and distance. While it\u27s useful for students to see how elements of her work connect her not only to some of these great American authors, it\u27s also useful to compare her work to that of other American women poets in her time