Mabel Loomis Todd: 2 books
by Emily Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd, Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
THE verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called “the Poetry of the Portfolio, ”— something produced absolutely without the thought of publication, and solely by way of expression of the writer's own mind. Such verse must inevitably forfeit whatever advantage...
by Emily Dickinson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Mabel Loomis Todd
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
The eagerness with which the first volume of Emily Dickinson's poems has been read shows very clearly that all our alleged modern artificiality does not prevent a prompt appreciation of the qualities of directness and simplicity in approaching the greatest themes, — life and love and death. That “irresistible...