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Addresses to a Divided Nation: Images of War in Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman
From: The Arizona Quarterly
Date: 20050101
Author:Barrett, Faith
"'SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY' is a superfluous Carol till it concern ourselves," Emily Dickinson writes in a warm and expansive letter to Mabel Loomis Todd in the summer of 1885 (Letters #1004).' Writing to her brother's mistress, who was then traveling in Europe, Dickinson touches on a subject one might not expect to encounter in her writings: the love of one's homeland, her love for America. "I saw the American Rag last Night in the shutting West," she writes, "and I felt for every exile." She signs the letter "America."
In reading Emily Dickinson, we do not expect to encounter a writer who ...
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