![]() ![]() Please send me gems again – I have a flower. My crown, indeed! I do not fear the king, attired in his grandeur. I find it Friend – I read it – I stop to thank you for it, just as the world is still – I thank you for them all – the pearl, and then the onyx, and then the emerald stone. Taken together, they show her profound influence on Dickinson, but also Dickinson’s sense of difference and divergence from this bewitching precursor. We end with three elegies Dickinson wrote on Barrett Browning that Thomas Johnson dates to 1862, but Franklin places in 1863. We follow this with several poems whose major themes about the high vocation of the poet and the importance of beauty and truth borrow directly from Barrett Browning’s poetry. Some scholars believe the gift was a collection of poetry by Barrett Browning, and that this early letter is Dickinson’s first, delirious response to her work. ![]() The first text in this group is a letter Dickinson penned to a literary friend in 1854, thanking him for a gift. Several scholars trace many echoes of Barrett Browning in Dickinson’s poetry, to the extent that John Walsh accused Dickinson of plagiarism! The texts we have selected for this week illustrate their special literary and personal relations. On Choosing the Poems and Letter Dickinson’s Writing DeskĪs mentioned in the post for this week, Barrett Browning’s influence on Dickinson was extensive. ![]()
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