![]() ![]() Though it is consoling to imagine a future generation of readers who will view Emily Dickinson's poetry through no filter of cheap melodrama or of cheaper sentiment, it is sad that we today receive such a small part of the mind and art that were put into these poems. ![]() ![]() In the interval the suffering has grown so specific as to seem a constant mutilation of the poetry by biographically induced speculation. ![]() and we have reached 1955 without any noticeable change in our Dickinson prejudice. Blackmur wrote of her: "Few poets have benefited generally, and suffered specifically, from such a handsome or fulsome set of prejudices, which, as they are expressed, seem to remove the need for any actual reading at all". This will be a year for changing our minds about Emily Dickinson-newly estimating her poetry and adjusting to biographical upsets-if we are able. ![]()
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