Letters to the World

A Grammar

Texts of the Poems

Compression

Disjunction

Repetition

Syntax

Speech

Reading the Poems

"He fumbles at your Soul"

"This was a Poet--It Is That"

"My Life had stood -- a Loaded Gun"

"To pile like Thunder to it's close"

Names and Verbs: Influences on the Poets Language

The Language of the Bible

Seventeenth-Century Stylists

The Hymns of Isaac Watts

The American Plain Style

Emerson's Theories of Language

Noah Webster and Lexicography

Nineteenth-Century Women Writers

The Consent of Language and the Woman Poet

Notes

Index of First Lines

Index

Cristanne Miller is Chair in the Department of English and Edward H. Butler Professor of Literature at University at Buffalo SUNY.

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