The Speaker of Emily Dickinson's "My Life Had Stood — a Loaded Gun"

Abstract

Edith Wylder (B.A., University of Akron; U.A. and Ph.D., University of New Mexico) has taught at the University of New Mexico and Colorado State University and is now an assistant professor of English at Bemidji State College. Her article Dickinson: Poetry and appeared in the Saturday Review in 1963. A book, The Voice of the Poet: The Rhetorical Punctuation of the Emily Dickinson Manuscripts, will be published by the [Tniversity of New Mexico Press in the spring of 1969.