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Interview: Alfred Habegger discusses his new biography about Emily Dickinson

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Date: 20011127
Author:BOB EDWARDS

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Interview: Alfred Habegger discusses his new biography about Emily Dickinson

Host: BOB EDWARDS Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon

BOB EDWARDS, host:

In a letter, Emily Dickinson made it clear that she understood the power of poetry.

Unidentified Woman: `I used to think when I was an ungifted girl that words were cheap and weak. Now I don't know of anything so mighty. Sometimes I write one and look at his outlines until he glows as no sapphire.'

EDWARDS: Yet Dickinson lived as a near recluse and refused to share her writing with the world. Alfred Habegger, author of a new ...

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