Hearing “New Englandly”: Emily Dickinson's Rhymes
Abstract If we could hear how people spoke in the past, would we perceive the same kind of poetry? Reconstructing Emily Dickinson's original pronunciation of nineteenth-century New England, this essay casts new light on how the poet could have sounded her own verses and how her famous “slant” rhymes have been misheard.
Authors
- Vladislav Areshka
Institutions
- Dedicon (NL)
Publication Details
- Journal
- The New England Quarterly
- Published
- 2024-09-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_01035
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.91