Hey, anyone notice the date? [spoiler]

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

On Thu, 8 May 1997, Gary L. Thompson wrote:
> 
> Several dozen posts ago someone mentioned a Dickinson poem. After seeing 
> Donne cited several times, I thought I'd give Emily some space. (This may 
> be relevant to discussions about capitalization in _M&D_.)

Been out for three days. Better late than never: congratulations, TP!

Oh yes, Emily Dickinson feels relevant to M&D. And, of course, GR, too,
with its explicit ED citations. (Although Tom may be a less difficult
writer than Emily.)

Some reviewer said that TP is the leading Gothicist of the U.S. today. 
M&D is so full of passages on and/or by ghosts. Rebekah et al. But has 
it been noticed that ED is, among other things, one of America's great
Gothic poets? E.g., many of her poems seem like messages from "the other
side", as does the other of the poems cited in GR, the one on Death who
kindly stopped. The poem serenely employs the rhetoric figure called 
"prosopopeia", in which an absent, usually deceased person is represented
as speaking. (Cf. GR's seances, and M&D's many prosopopeias, too.)

Heikki