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Currently Playing: Emily Dickinson and the Calling of the Visionary Poet | Lect. 10

What does it mean to be called to be a poet? In this lecture, part of The Poetics of Enchantment series, we turn to Emily Dickinson to consider the vocation of the visionary poet. Where Wordsworth outlined his poetic manifesto in prose, Dickinson encoded hers in verse. Through a close reading of key poems, we examine how Dickinson envisioned the poet as a witness to inner worlds. We reflect on her metaphors, her use of paradox, and her conception of poetic calling as both resistance and receptivity. Drawing on the influence of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and tracing connections with Plato, Julian of Norwich, Margaret Cavendish, and Wordsworth, this lecture invites viewers into Dickinson’s "remoter green," the hidden spiritual terrain where poetry is not only made, but lived. The Visionary Calling 0:00-2:11 "There is a morn by men unseen" 2:11-11:25 Dickinson's Development as a Poet 11:25-18:30 Elizabeth Barrett Browning 18:30-22:45 "The Martyr Poets - did not tell -" 22:45-25:25 Negotiating Calvinism 25:25-28:30 Dickinson's Poetics 28:30-31:20 "Much Madness is divinest sense" 31:20-34:37 "The Soul should always stand ajar" 34:37-36:04 Join the literature school here: versedcommunity.mn.co