eccentric

Do you agree with most readers that these eccentricities are actually among the poems’ greatest qualities?

A word often associated with Emily Dickinson is “eccentric.” As we’ve learned, she almost never left her home for the last twenty years of her life. She attended her father’s funeral while hiding in her bedroom with the door cracked open so she could hear. She was known in her neighborhood as the “Woman in […]

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