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| April 15, 1862 |
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| Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) |
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Emily Dickinson: "My Barefoot Rank is Better"
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| by Steve King |
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Upon her sister, Emily's, death in 1886, Lavinia Dickinson made one of the most famous discoveries in American literature: a small box containing over 900 poems, assembled by Emily into folded packets, each bound at the spine by a loop of ribbon. Over 1700 poems and fragments were eventually found -- in letters, in the margins of newspapers, and on backs of envelopes. Only a handful of them had appeared in Dickinson's lifetime, most pirated from letters sent to friends, and published anonymously. Everyone knew that Emily Dickinson had been a recluse -- the 'Nun of Amherst,' as legend later put it -- but not even Lavinia knew that inside the family house they had shared for their entire lives her sister had also been a serious poet ... FULL STORY »
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