Review of “I Died for Beauty, but Was Scarce” (1862)

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Emily Dickinson (writer).

Read in 2021.

Kindred spirits, under the maxim of Keats’s urn in “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1819), find each other in death. A bit of late Romanticism predicated on the idea that such romantics fail to live.

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