SkyNews - January/February 2010

SkyNews - if you are not familiar with Canada's magazine of astronomy and stargazing, please browse around the site. You might want to start with a peek at our current issue or some sample articles by Terence Dickinson, Alan Dyer and Ken Hewitt-White. SkyNews has plenty to offer the astronomy buff.

One of America's most celebrated women, Emily Dickinson was virtually unpublished in her own time and unknown to the public at large. Today her poetry is commonly anthologized and widely praised for its precision, its intensity, its depth and beauty. Dickinson's life and work, however, remain in important ways mysterious. This collection of essays, all of them previously unpublished, represent the best of contemporary scholarship and points the way toward exciting new directions for the future.

"Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson" is an encyclopedic guide to the life and works of Emily Dickinson, one of the most famous and widely studied American poets of the 19th century. Known for her wit and preference for seclusion from the outside world, Dickinson rarely left her home in Amherst, Mass., preferring instead to write quietly from the confines of her bedroom. This new title contains close readings and critical analyses of more than 150 of Dickinson's best-known poems, including "Because I could not stop for Death," "I felt a funeral, in my Brain," "I died for Beauty - but was scarce," and "I like to see it lap the miles."

This Companion to America’s greatest woman poet showcases the diversity and excellence that characterize the thriving field of Dickinson studies.
* Covers biographical approaches of Dickinson, the historical, political and cultural contexts of her work, and its critical reception over the years.
* Considers issues relating to the different formats in which Dickinson’s lyrics have been published – manuscript, print, halftone and digital facsimile