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Materials accessible here are Cornell University Library's contributions to Making of America (MOA), a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. This site provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. The project represents a major collaborative endeavor in preservation and electronic access to historical texts.

Title: The Experienced Emblem: A Study of the Poetry of Emily Dickinson Author(s): Monteiro, George; St. Armand, Barton Levi Source: Prospects: An Annual Journal of American Cultural Studies (Prospects) 1981; 6: 187-280. [Journal Detail] Peer Reviewed: No ISSN: 0361-2333 General Subject Areas: Subject Literature: American literature; Period: 1800-1899; Primary Subject Author: Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Genre: poetry; Subject Terms: imagery; sources in emblem book Document Information: Publication Type: journal article Language of Publication: English Update Code: 198101 Sequence Numbers: 1981-1-6486 Accession Number: 1981072837

Subject Literature: American literature; Period: 1800-1899; Primary Subject Author: Dickinson, Emily (1830-1886); Primary Subject Work: 'Abraham to kill him'; Genre: poetry; Subject Terms: treatment of God; as tyrant; compared to Old Testament; Genesis Document Information: Publication Type: journal article Language of Publication: English Update Code: 198701 Sequence Numbers: 1987-1-7167 Accession Number: 1987029423

In many ways Shakespeare is the founder of the modern English that we use. He has enriched the way we speak and understand our language (see Shakespeare's development of modern English). In order to express precisely what he had in mind he created metaphors that so perfectly expressed those