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The Poetry of Emily Dickinson

An excerpt from Introduction to Emily Dickinson by Henry W. Wells, 1959.

An excerpt from Introduction to Emily Dickinson by Henry W. Wells, 1959.

Citation Information: Wells, Henry W., excerpt from “Introduction to Emily Dickinson,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/07cab7dd2831f158b24cd9d843c8299c.

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The manuscript of Dickinson’s poem beginning “A narrow fellow in the grass,” ca. 1865.

A map of Amherst, Massachusetts, attributed to Charles B. Adams and Alonzo Gray, published by Pendleton’s Lithography in 1833.

An excerpt from an undated letter from Emily Dickinson to her younger sister, Lavinia.

An undated letter from Emily Dickinson to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, ca. 1880.

An excerpt from Introduction to Emily Dickinson by Henry W. Wells, 1959.

A page from an 1857 Godey’s Lady’s Book, a popular and influential magazine for women during Emily Dickinson’s lifetime.

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