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Selected Poems and Letters

Includes both poems and letters of Dickinson, as well as a contemporary description of the poet in Thomas Wentworth Higginson's account of his correspondence with the poet and his visit to her in Amherst.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 343 pages

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