Atlantic Archives: Emily Dickinson’s Enduring Poetry
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The Atlantic never published Emily Dickinson during her lifetime. In 1862, after reading Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s advice to writers in the magazine, Dickinson wrote to him asking if her verse was “alive,” enclosing four poems and beginning a correspondence between the two writers. Higginson recognized her “original poetic genius” but found the work “so elusive of criticism,” and The Atlantic declined to print her poems.
Dickinson died in 1886 without appearing in its pages. Her posthumous fame surged, which Higginson later called a “curious” phenomenon in American literary history.
In 1913, the magazine published a small collection of her poems, underscoring the irony that death helped bring her work to light.
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Dickinson died in 1886 without appearing in its pages. Her posthumous fame surged, which Higginson later called a “curious” phenomenon in American literary history.
In 1913, the magazine published a small collection of her poems, underscoring the irony that death helped bring her work to light.
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