LITERATURE QUESTIONS
TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE
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Walt Whitman
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Emily Dickinson
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Ralph Emerson
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Henry Thoreau
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Detailed explanation-1: -Publication. Despite Dickinson’s prolific writing, only ten poems and a letter were published during her lifetime. After her younger sister Lavinia discovered the collection of nearly 1800 poems, Dickinson’s first volume was published four years after her death. Until Thomas H.
Detailed explanation-2: -Only 10 of Dickinson’s nearly 1, 800 poems were published during her lifetime; the rest were discovered after her death in 1886, leaving her work in the hands of competing heirs and her legacy in the hands of rival editors.
Detailed explanation-3: -All poems were published without attribution. Titled “To Mrs-, with a Rose.” Published in A Masque of Poets (Boston: Roberts Bros.)
Detailed explanation-4: -In general, Emily Dickinson did not title her poems because she did not intend their publication.
Detailed explanation-5: -1850, February The earliest record of Emily Dickinson’s poetry in publication. “Magnum bonum, harem scarem” is published in the Amherst College Indicator as a valentine letter.