NP - E. Dickinson - The Heart Asks Pleasure First

[Mark Kohut]

Publishing miscellany re Emily. She is one of the two greatest 19th Century
American poets, all agree.
The other is her stylistic opposite almost, Walt Whitman.

Do you know why he is in the canonical Library of America series of great
writers and she is not.

Rights fights. Yes.

On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 8:52 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Heart asks Pleasure -- first --
> And then -- Excuse from Pain --
> And then -- those little Anodynes
> <https://genius.com/Emily-dickinson-the-heart-asks-
> pleasure-first-536-annotated#note-2038728>
> That deaden suffering --
>
> And then -- to go to sleep --
> And then -- if it should be
> The will of its Inquisitor
> <https://genius.com/Emily-dickinson-the-heart-asks-
> pleasure-first-536-annotated#note-4430142>
> The privilege to die --
> --
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