Wild Nights!

Wild Nights! Stories about the last days of Poe, Dickinson, Twain, James and Hemingway is a collection of short stories by Joyce Carol Oates. As the title suggests, the stories are about the final days in the lives of authors Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James and Ernest Hemingway. It was published in April 2008 by Ecco.

Not to be confused with Wild Night or Panasonic Wild Knights.

First edition

When first reading this poem, the reader may interpret it as erotic. The central point of the story is to see the despair, however this goes over many peoples head.[1]

References

1. Faris, Paul (1967). "Eroticism in Emily Dickinson's "Wild Nights!"". The New England Quarterly. 40 (2): 269–274. doi:10.2307/363772. ISSN 0028-4866. JSTOR 363772.