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Emily Dickinson & Elizabeth Bishop

Comparing poets

Cathy O’Neill explores how comparing two poets can help us to read their work in new ways

In a 1956 letter to her friend and fellow poet Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop (1911–79) recorded her reassessment of her American forebear, Emily Dickinson (1830–86):

The praise is still guarded but it prompts us to explore what these two writers share.

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