Fame is a fickle food (1702)
Source: The Poems of Emily Dickinson Edited by R. W. Franklin (Harvard University Press, 1999)
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Poet Emily Dickinson 1830–1886
POET’S REGION U.S., New England
Subjects Social Commentaries, Popular Culture
Biography
A poet who took definition as her province, Emily Dickinson challenged the existing definitions of poetry and the poet’s work. Like writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman, she experimented with expression in order to free it from conventional restraints. Like writers such as Charlotte Brontë and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, she crafted a new type of persona for the first person. The speakers in . . .
Poems by Emily Dickinson
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SUBJECT Social Commentaries, Popular Culture
POET’S REGION U.S., New England
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