Emily Dickinson: An Interpretive BiographyMr. Johnson puts the outline of his aims in the form of two questions: "What was Emily Dickinson like?" and "As a poet, what was she trying to do?" He has answered both as fully as they can be answered. --Robert Hillyer. |
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