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From: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
Date: 20040301
Author:Fenwick, Wendy

Emily Dickinson is the perennially inscrutable 20th-century poet who lived in the 19th century, a woman whose poetry was as radical and eccentric as her personal life was cramped and ordinary. Her two nicknames--"the belle of Amherst" and "the nun of Amherst"--encapsulate the profound ambiguity of her personality: on the one hand a woman of obvious sensuality with an almost unrestrained capacity for love and joy, on the other a retiring spinster who withdrew from the human community to become a kind of writing monk. One thinks of that other 19th-century "modern" poet, Gerard ...

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