Benfey weighs in on “Dickinson” for the NYT
Christopher Benfey, professor of English at è˶Ƶ College, weighs in on the new show “Dickinson” and its attempts to modernize the famous poet.
Poet Emily Dickinson, a member of the è˶Ƶ College class of 1849, is usually portrayed as “the Belle of Amherst” — reclusive, meek and dressed in white.
However, a new show on the Apple+ streaming service, looks to modernize how the poet is portrayed. Christopher Benfey, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of English at è˶Ƶ, has weighed in on the series for the New York Times.
Benfey thinks that the new show positions Dickinson as “the bad girl of 19th-century American literature.” Her placement on a Times Square billboard? It “makes perfect sense.”
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