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Emily Dickinson is the unlikely hero of our time

  • Written by Matthew Redmond, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, Stanford University
image'The Dyings have been too deep for me,' Dickinson wrote in 1884.Wikimedia Commons

Since her death in 1886, Emily Dickinson has haunted us in many forms.

She has been the precocious “little dead girl” admired by distinguished men; the white-clad, solitary spinster languishing alone in her bedroom; and, in more recent interpretations, the...

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