Her great legacy was later rescued from her desk drawer-an astonishing body of work revealing her acute, sensitive nature reaching out boldly from self-referral to a wider, imagined world. As she knowingly put it: “There is one thing to be grateful for-that one is one’s self and not somebody else.”ĭickinson lived and died without fame: she saw only a few poems published. She did not live in time, as did that other great poet of the day, Walt Whitman, but in universals. Only poems, written quietly in a room of her own, often hand-stitched in small volumes, then hidden in a desk drawer, revealed her true self. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Visit EDA »Įmily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. The Emily Dickinson Archive makes manuscripts of Dickinson’s poetry, along with transcriptions and annotations from scholarly editions, available in open access-inspiring new scholarship and discourse on this literary icon.
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