"Emily Dickinson is the female Sade, and her poems are the prison dreams of a self-incarcerated, sadmomasochistic imaginist. When she is rescued from American Studies departments and juxtaposed with Dante and Baudelaire, her barbarities and diabolical acts of will become glaringly apparent. Dickinson inherits through Blake the rape cycle of The Faerie Queene. Blake and Spenser are her allies in helping pagan Coleridge defeat Protestant Wordsworth."
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19th-century poets from the United StatesWomen authors from the United StatesWomen born in the 19th centuryPoets from Massachusetts
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Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae (1990) p. 624
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