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Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life | 11 | 11 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature | 8 | 8 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises | 7 | 7 | Browse | Search |
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) | 5 | 5 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book | 2 | 2 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Book and heart: essays on literature and life | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Carlyle's laugh and other surprises, chapter 20 (search)
XIX.
Emily Dickinson
Few events in American literary history have been more curious than the sudden rise of Emily Dickinson many years since into a posthumousEmily Dickinson many years since into a posthumous fame only more accentuated by the utterly recluse character of her life.
The lines which formed a prelude to the first volume of her poems are the only ones that h recede as far as possible from view --in pencil, not in ink. The name was Emily Dickinson.
Inclosed with the letter were four poems, two of which have since been s oy.
Circumstances, however, soon brought me in contact with an uncle of Emily Dickinson, a gentleman not now living: a prominent citizen of Worcester, Massachuset rembling emblems.
Your scholar.
These were my earliest letters from Emily Dickinson, in their order.
From this time and up to her death (May 15, 1886) we cor osing, like every human biography, with funerals, yet with such as were to Emily Dickinson only the stately introduction to a higher life — may well end with her de