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Susan Dickinson on EMILY DICKINSON 1830-1886

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20041031
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Remembered here by her sister-in-law Susan Dickinson, the reclusive poet Emily Dickinson gained recognition only after her death.

ADamascus blade gleaming and glancing in the sun was her wit. Her swift poetic rapture was like the long glistening note of a bird one hears in the June woods at high noon, but can never see. Like a magician she caught the shadowy apparitions of her brain and tossed them in startling picturesqueness to her friends, who, charmed with their simplicity and homeliness as well as profundity, fretted that she had so easily made palpable the tantalizing fancies forever ...

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