Dickinson's "I taste a liquor never brewed -." From: The Explicator | Date: June 22, 1995| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1995 Heldref Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

Emily Dickinson's poem "I taste a liquor never brewed -" critiques American Puritanism. She appropriates the images wrought by Michael Wigglesworth in his didactic poem "The day of doom" and recasts the resurrection scene from the Calvinistic day of wrath and terror into one of joy that verges on the point of giddiness. The poem presents the poet's rejection of the limited and limiting Calvinist doctrine of salvation.

In his account of Emily Dickinson's critique of American Puritanism, John Robinson cites the oft-read "I taste a liquor never brewed - " (No. 214; 1861), deeming it a poem ...

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