DANEEN WARDROP is Associate Professor of English at Western Michigan University. She is the author of Emily Dickinson's Gothic: Goblin with a Gauge (1996), and her articles have appeared in such journals as Texas Studies in Literature and Language, ESQ, African American Review, and The Emily Dickinson Journal.

• Introduction Poe's "The Raven" and Gestative Signification Whitman's "Song of Myself" and Gestative Signification Dickinson's Fascicle Twenty-Eight and Gestative Signification Word, Birth, and Poe's Alchemy Word, Birth, and Whitman's Water Cure Word, Birth, and Dickinson's Botany Texts Conclusion: Reading Poetry from One Century to Another Selected Bibliograpgy Index

DANEEN WARDROP is Associate Professor of English at Western Michigan University. She is the author of Emily Dickinson's Gothic: Goblin with a Gauge (1996), and her articles have appeared in such journals as Texas Studies in Literature and Language, ESQ, African American Review, and The Emily Dickinson Journal.

• Introduction Poe's "The Raven" and Gestative Signification Whitman's "Song of Myself" and Gestative Signification Dickinson's Fascicle Twenty-Eight and Gestative Signification Word, Birth, and Poe's Alchemy Word, Birth, and Whitman's Water Cure Word, Birth, and Dickinson's Botany Texts Conclusion: Reading Poetry from One Century to Another Selected Bibliograpgy Index

DANEEN WARDROP is Associate Professor of English at Western Michigan University. She is the author of Emily Dickinson's Gothic: Goblin with a Gauge (1996), and her articles have appeared in such journals as Texas Studies in Literature and Language, ESQ, African American Review, and The Emily Dickinson Journal.

• Introduction Poe's "The Raven" and Gestative Signification Whitman's "Song of Myself" and Gestative Signification Dickinson's Fascicle Twenty-Eight and Gestative Signification Word, Birth, and Poe's Alchemy Word, Birth, and Whitman's Water Cure Word, Birth, and Dickinson's Botany Texts Conclusion: Reading Poetry from One Century to Another Selected Bibliograpgy Index