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Please add a Dickinson poem here, if you have one handy!
Or if you have a favorite book by or about Dickinson, give it a mention here. Also most helpful are websites with interesting articles on Dickinson (add a link here) -- for instance, a wonderful essay written in the late 19th century by a childhood friend of ED, whose name was Emily Fowler Ford, see:
GROWING UP WITH EMILY DICKINSON
http://www.earlywomenmasters.net/essays/authors/fowler/fowler.html
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He ate and drank the precious Words --
His Spirit grew robust --
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was Dust --
He danced along the dingy Days
And this Bequest of Wings
Was but a Book -- What Liberty
A loosened spirit brings --
~ Emily Dickinson
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EmilyDickinson Readers Group at LibraryThing
Please add a Dickinson poem here, if you have one handy!
Or if you have a favorite book by or about Dickinson, give it a mention here. Also most helpful are websites with interesting articles on Dickinson (add a link here) -- for instance, a wonderful essay written in the late 19th century by a childhood friend of ED, whose name was Emily Fowler Ford, see:
GROWING UP WITH EMILY DICKINSON
http://www.earlywomenmasters.net/essays/authors/fowler/fowler.html
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He ate and drank the precious Words --
His Spirit grew robust --
He knew no more that he was poor,
Nor that his frame was Dust --
He danced along the dingy Days
And this Bequest of Wings
Was but a Book -- What Liberty
A loosened spirit brings --
~ Emily Dickinson
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EmilyDickinson Readers Group at LibraryThing
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3manolis
I don't know if I would say it is my favorite--I love all the Dickinson books I have--but I do very much like Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson. Has anyone else read it? I'd love to hear your thoughts.
5krolik
This one, which captures better than anything I've read the tantalizing and elusive thought process, the problem of trying to synthesize a messy world:
I felt a Cleaving in my Mind —
As if my Brain had split —
I tried to match it — Seam by Seam —
But could not make it fit.
The thought behind, I strove to join
Unto the thought before —
But Sequence ravelled out of Sound
Like Balls — upon a Floor.
I felt a Cleaving in my Mind —
As if my Brain had split —
I tried to match it — Seam by Seam —
But could not make it fit.
The thought behind, I strove to join
Unto the thought before —
But Sequence ravelled out of Sound
Like Balls — upon a Floor.
