Emily Dickinson is/was one of the greatest American poets and a most original voice. When she submitted a few poems to a leading scholar and critic of the day (Thomas Wentworth Higginson) for his opinion as to whether her poems breathed, she received a discouraging note saying that the poems were not for publication. He was to call them strange and bizarre in later years, though not directly to Dickinson. Her reply was bold and confident: I smile when you suggest that I delay to publish -- that being foreign to my thought, as Firmament to Fin. It was at this point in her life (1862) that she determined to pursue her art the more vigorously, eventually producing 1, 775 poems up to her death at 55, but unawares to anyone, even to her closest kin.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 00:49:57 +0000
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