Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One
Emily Dickinson Editor · English
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Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One
Emily Dickinson Editor · English
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PREFACE. 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 lies in the discipline of public criticism and the enforced conformity to accepted ways. On the other hand, it may often gain something through the habit of freedom and the unconventional
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