Deciphering Emily Dickinson's Notes
"I'm nobody! Who are you?"
When we read Emily Dickinson’s (1830-1886) poems in print, we are not reading them as she intended. Rather, we are reading Dickinson’s poems as her editors interpreted them.
The truth is that we don’t really know if Dickinson wanted her poems published at all. Over the course of her life, she wrote nearly 1,800 poems. She only saw a few of them in print…
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