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Reading and Reworking the Bard in Amherst, Massachusetts: Allusions to William Shakespeare’s Tragedies in Three of Emily Dickinson’s Poems

Reading and Reworking the Bard in Amherst, Massachusetts: Allusions to William Shakespeare’s... ANQ: A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SHORT ARTICLES, NOTES AND REVIEWS https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2023.2215287 Reading and Reworking the Bard in Amherst, Massachusetts: Allusions to William Shakespeare’s Tragedies in Three of Emily Dickinson’s Poems Russell M. Hillier Second only to the 1611 Authorized Version of the Bible, William Shakespeare’s works were the principal source upon which Emily Dickinson drew in the composition of her letters and poems. In February of 1864, at the age of thirty-three, suffering from what Judith Farr has argued was strabismus (170), Dickinson consulted the Boston oculist Henry W. Williams. Williams’s prescribed treatment included restricting the poet for eight months from what Dickinson called “all her dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the souls — BOOKS” (Sewall 76). After this period of privation and recovery had passed, Dickinson’s first resort was to Shakespeare. In a letter to her friend Joseph Lyman, Dickinson describes, in passionate, even erotic, terms, her experience of rediscovering Shakespeare after her painful, months-long withdrawal from reading: Shakespeare was the first; Antony and Cleopatra where Enobarbus laments the amorous lapse of his master . . . then I thought why clasp any hand but this. Give me ever to drink of this wine. Going http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ANQ A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews Taylor & Francis

Reading and Reworking the Bard in Amherst, Massachusetts: Allusions to William Shakespeare’s Tragedies in Three of Emily Dickinson’s Poems

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References (2)

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    Emily Dickinson’s Poems

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    Macbeth

    Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies, 22

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ANQ: A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SHORT ARTICLES, NOTES AND REVIEWS https://doi.org/10.1080/0895769X.2023.2215287 Reading and Reworking the Bard in Amherst, Massachusetts: Allusions to William Shakespeare’s Tragedies in Three of Emily Dickinson’s Poems Russell M. Hillier Second only to the 1611 Authorized Version of the Bible, William Shakespeare’s works were the principal source upon which Emily Dickinson drew in the composition of her letters and poems. In February of 1864, at the age of thirty-three, suffering from what Judith Farr has argued was strabismus (170), Dickinson consulted the Boston oculist Henry W. Williams. Williams’s prescribed treatment included restricting the poet for eight months from what Dickinson called “all her dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the souls — BOOKS” (Sewall 76). After this period of privation and recovery had passed, Dickinson’s first resort was to Shakespeare. In a letter to her friend Joseph Lyman, Dickinson describes, in passionate, even erotic, terms, her experience of rediscovering Shakespeare after her painful, months-long withdrawal from reading: Shakespeare was the first; Antony and Cleopatra where Enobarbus laments the amorous lapse of his master . . . then I thought why clasp any hand but this. Give me ever to drink of this wine. Going

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ANQ A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and ReviewsTaylor & Francis

Published: May 19, 2023

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