Dickinson's dashes do

New Criticism

New Criticism focused on the poem as an autonomous object

the Romantics (Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley) elevated

Romantics valued imagination and feeling over reason and convention

Cubism

Cubism shatters Renaissance single-point perspective by depicting subjects from multiple viewpoints

Rimbaud's 'systematic derangement of all the senses' sought

Rimbaud's 'systematic derangement of all the senses' sought a new poetic language through extremity

Nabokov's Lolita forces the reader to confront

Nabokov's Lolita forces the reader to confront seductive prose in the service of a monster's self-justification

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath's confessional poetry turned personal suffering into art