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Dickinson Criticism 1900-1919

Little academic study of any modern writer was published in these decades, and Dickinson's popularity waned between the publication of volumes of her verse in 1896 and 1914.

• Ives, Ella Gilbert. "Emily Dickinson, Her Poetry, Prose and Personality." Boston Evening Transcript 5 October 1907. Repr. Blake & Wells. Appreciative biographical criticism; insists that ED's powers outweighed her faults.

• Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley. "An Early Imagist," New Republic 14 August 1915. Repr. Blake & Wells, Ferlazzo. Review of The Single Hound stresses ED's New Englandness. Cites influence of Donne.

• Shackford, Martha Hale. "The Poetry of Emily Dickinson," Atlantic Monthly 111 (January 1913): 93-97. Repr. Blake & Wells. Praises ED's ironies, paradoxes, and humorous audacity. Commends ED for employing a homeliness usually undervalued in American verse in favor of "exalted phraseology." Anticipates, at a great distance, Margaret Dickie's sense of Dickinson's discontinuities.

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