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Emily Dickinson

Index Emily Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. [1]

167 relations: A Masque of Poets, A Quiet Passion, Aaron Copland, Abolitionism in the United States, Adrienne Rich, Agoraphobia, Allen Tate, Amazing Grace, American Civil War, American literature, American poetry, Amherst College, Amherst West Cemetery, Amherst, Massachusetts, Andrew Lang, Anemone, Anthony Hecht, Antimacassar, Antony and Cleopatra, Arithmetic, Ballad stanza, Bible, Boston, Bozeman, Montana, Bright's disease, Brontë family, Calendula, Campus novel, Capitalization, Charlotte Brontë, Cleanth Brooks, Common metre, Cult following, Cynthia Nixon, Cypripedioideae, Daguerreotype, Dash, Dipsomania, Edmund Wilson, Edward Dickinson, Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson Museum, Epilepsy, Feminism, French language, Gentiana, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Grotesque, Hamlet, ..., Harold Bloom, Harper's Magazine, Hart Crane, Harvard University, Harvard University Press, Helen Hunt Jackson, Heliotropium arborescens, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Herbarium, Houghton Library, Hyacinth (plant), I taste a liquor never brewed, Iambic tetrameter, Iambic trimeter, Idiosyncrasy, Irony, Jane Campion, Jane Eyre, John Adams (composer), Jones Library, Judy Chicago, Kate Pullinger, Kavanagh (novel), King Lear, Kurdish languages, Latin, Lavinia Norcross Dickinson, Lily of the valley, Linnaean taxonomy, List of Emily Dickinson poems, Lydia Maria Child, Mabel Loomis Todd, Maluku Islands, Margaret Maher, Martha Nell Smith, Mary Lyon, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Massachusetts's 10th congressional district, Maurice Thompson, Michael Tilson Thomas, Modernism, Modernist poetry in English, Monson, Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College, Narcissus (plant), New Criticism, Newfoundland dog, Nick Peros, Nosegay, O Little Town of Bethlehem, Orchidaceae, Othello, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Pansy, Paralysis, Peony, Perfect and imperfect rhymes, Persian language, Philadelphia, Psalms, Puritan migration to New England (1620–40), Puritans, R. P. Blackmur, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Redmond, Washington, Richard B. Sewall, Riddle, Robert Frost, Roland Hagenbüchle, Russian language, Salem, Massachusetts, Samuel Bowles (journalist), San Francisco, Satire, Second Great Awakening, Second-wave feminism, Sentimentalism (literature), South Hadley, Massachusetts, Spanish dialects and varieties, Sterling Memorial Library, Success is Counted Sweetest, Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson, Sweet pea, T. S. Eliot, Terence Davies, The Atlantic, The Belle of Amherst, The Daily Telegraph, The Dinner Party, The Emily Dickinson Journal, The Piano, The Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts), The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Time (magazine), Transcendentalism, Tuberculosis, Typhoid fever, Typhus, United States Congress, United States Postal Service, University of Massachusetts Press, Variorum, Viola (plant), W. H. Auden, Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman, Washington, D.C., William Austin Dickinson, William Blake, William Dean Howells, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Yale University, Yvor Winters. Expand index (117 more) »

A Masque of Poets

A Masque of Poets is an 1878 book of poetry published in the United States.

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A Quiet Passion

A Quiet Passion is a 2016 biographical film directed and written by Terence Davies about the life of American poet Emily Dickinson.

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Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900December 2, 1990) was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later a conductor of his own and other American music.

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Abolitionism in the United States

Abolitionism in the United States was the movement before and during the American Civil War to end slavery in the United States.

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Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Cecile Rich (May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist.

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Agoraphobia

Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder characterized by symptoms of anxiety in situations where the person perceives the environment to be unsafe with no easy way to get away.

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Allen Tate

John Orley Allen Tate (November 19, 1899 – February 9, 1979), known professionally as Allen Tate, was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate from 1943 to 1944.

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Amazing Grace

"Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn published in 1779, with words written by the English poet and Anglican clergyman John Newton (1725–1807).

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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American literature

American literature is literature written or produced in the United States and its preceding colonies (for specific discussions of poetry and theater, see Poetry of the United States and Theater in the United States).

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American poetry

American poetry, the poetry of the United States, arose first as efforts by colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the constitutional unification of the thirteen colonies (although before this unification, a strong oral tradition often likened to poetry existed among Native American societies).

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Amherst College

Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States.

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Amherst West Cemetery

Amherst West Cemetery is a historic cemetery on Triangle Street in Amherst, Massachusetts.

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Amherst, Massachusetts

Amherst is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Connecticut River valley.

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Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang, FBA (31 March 184420 July 1912) was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology.

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Anemone

Anemone is a genus of about 200 species of flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae, native to temperate zones.

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Anthony Hecht

Anthony Evan Hecht (January 16, 1923 – October 20, 2004) was an American poet.

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Antimacassar

An antimacassar is a small cloth placed over the backs or arms of chairs, or the head or cushions of a sofa, to prevent soiling of the permanent fabric underneath.

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Antony and Cleopatra

Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare.

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Arithmetic

Arithmetic (from the Greek ἀριθμός arithmos, "number") is a branch of mathematics that consists of the study of numbers, especially the properties of the traditional operations on them—addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

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Ballad stanza

In poetry, a Ballad stanza is the four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, most often found in the folk ballad.

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that Jews and Christians consider to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Bozeman, Montana

Bozeman is a town in and the seat of Gallatin County, Montana, United States.

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Bright's disease

Bright's disease is a historical classification of kidney diseases that would be described in modern medicine as acute or chronic nephritis.

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Brontë family

The Brontës (commonly) were a nineteenth-century literary family, born in the village of Thornton and later associated with the village of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Calendula

Calendula, is a genus of about 15–20 species Flora of China.

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Campus novel

A campus novel, also known as an academic novel, is a novel whose main action is set in and around the campus of a university.

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Capitalization

Capitalisation, or capitalization,see spelling differences is writing a word with its first letter as a capital letter (upper-case letter) and the remaining letters in lower case in writing systems with a case distinction.

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Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë (commonly; 21 April 1816 – 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Brontë sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature.

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Cleanth Brooks

Cleanth Brooks (October 16, 1906 – May 10, 1994) was an American literary critic and professor.

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Common metre

Common metre or common measure — abbreviated as C. M. or CM — is a poetic metre consisting of four lines which alternate between iambic tetrameter (four metrical feet per line) and iambic trimeter (three metrical feet per line), with each foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

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Cult following

A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to a work of culture, often referred to as a cult classic.

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Cynthia Nixon

Cynthia Ellen Nixon (born April 9, 1966) is an American actress, activist, and gubernatorial candidate in the State of New York.

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Cypripedioideae

Lady's slipper orchids (also known as lady slipper orchids or slipper orchids) are orchids in the subfamily Cypripedioideae, which comprises the genera Cypripedium, Mexipedium, Paphiopedilum, Phragmipedium and Selenipedium.

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Daguerreotype

The Daguerreotype (daguerréotype) process, or daguerreotypy, was the first publicly available photographic process, and for nearly twenty years it was the one most commonly used.

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Dash

The dash is a punctuation mark that is similar in appearance to and, but differs from these symbols in both length and height.

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Dipsomania

Dipsomania is a historical term describing a medical condition involving an uncontrollable craving for alcohol.

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Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson (May 8, 1895 – June 12, 1972) was an American writer and critic who explored Freudian and Marxist themes.

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Edward Dickinson

Edward Dickinson (January 1, 1803 – June 16, 1874) was an American politician from Massachusetts.

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Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant

Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant (April 23, 1881, Winchester, Massachusetts – January 26, 1965, New York City) was an American journalist and writer.

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Emily Brontë

Emily Jane Brontë (commonly; 30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature.

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Emily Dickinson Museum

The Emily Dickinson Museum is a historic house museum consisting of two houses: the Dickinson Homestead (also known as Emily Dickinson Home or Emily Dickinson House) and the Evergreens.

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Epilepsy

Epilepsy is a group of neurological disorders characterized by epileptic seizures.

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Feminism

Feminism is a range of political movements, ideologies, and social movements that share a common goal: to define, establish, and achieve political, economic, personal, and social equality of sexes.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Gentiana

Gentiana is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the gentian family (Gentianaceae), the tribe Gentianeae, and the monophyletic subtribe Gentianinae.

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets.

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Grotesque

Since at least the 18th century (in French and German as well as English), grotesque (or grottoesque) has come to be used as a general adjective for the strange, mysterious, magnificent, fantastic, hideous, ugly, incongruous, unpleasant, or disgusting, and thus is often used to describe weird shapes and distorted forms such as Halloween masks.

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Hamlet

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602.

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Harold Bloom

Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930) is an American literary critic and Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University.

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Harper's Magazine

Harper's Magazine (also called Harper's) is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts.

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Hart Crane

Harold Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 – April 27, 1932) was an American poet.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing.

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Helen Hunt Jackson

Helen Maria Hunt Jackson (pen name, H.H.; October 15, 1830 – August 12, 1885), was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the United States government.

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Heliotropium arborescens

Heliotropium arborescens, the garden heliotrope, is a species of flowering plant in the borage family Boraginaceae, native to Peru.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline.

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Herbarium

A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant specimens and associated data used for scientific study.

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Houghton Library

Houghton Library, on the south side of Harvard Yard adjacent to Widener Library, is Harvard University's primary repository for rare books and manuscripts.

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Hyacinth (plant)

Hyacinthus is a small genus of bulbous, fragrant flowering plants in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Scilloideae.

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I taste a liquor never brewed

"I taste a liquor never brewed" is a lyrical poem written by Emily Dickinson first published in the Springfield Daily Republican of 4 May 1861 from a now lost copy.

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Iambic tetrameter

Iambic tetrameter is a meter in poetry.

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Iambic trimeter

The Iambic trimeter is a meter of poetry consisting of three iambic units (each of two feet) per line.

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Idiosyncrasy

An idiosyncrasy is an unusual feature of a person (though there are also other uses, see below).

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Irony

Irony, in its broadest sense, is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or event in which what appears, on the surface, to be the case, differs radically from what is actually the case.

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Jane Campion

Dame Elizabeth Jane Campion (born 30 April 1954) is a New Zealand screenwriter, producer, and director.

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Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë, published under the pen name "Currer Bell", on 16 October 1847, by Smith, Elder & Co. of London, England.

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John Adams (composer)

John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer of classical music and opera, with strong roots in minimalism.

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Jones Library

The Jones Library of Amherst, Massachusetts is a public library with three locations, the main building and two branches.

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Judy Chicago

Judy Chicago (born Judith Sylvia Cohen; July 20, 1939) is an American feminist artist, art educator, and writer known for her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and creation images, which examine the role of women in history and culture.

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Kate Pullinger

Kate Pullinger is a Canadian novelist and author of digital fiction, lecturing at De Montfort University, England.

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Kavanagh (novel)

Kavanagh is a novel by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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King Lear

King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.

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Kurdish languages

Kurdish (Kurdî) is a continuum of Northwestern Iranian languages spoken by the Kurds in Western Asia.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Lavinia Norcross Dickinson

Lavinia Norcross Dickinson (February 28, 1833 – August 31, 1899) was the younger sister of American poet Emily Dickinson.

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Lily of the valley

Lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis), sometimes written lily-of-the-valley, is a sweetly scented, highly poisonous woodland flowering plant that is native throughout the cool temperate Northern Hemisphere in Asia and Europe.

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Linnaean taxonomy

Linnaean taxonomy can mean either of two related concepts.

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List of Emily Dickinson poems

This is a list of poems by Emily Dickinson.

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Lydia Maria Child

Lydia Maria Francis Child (born Lydia Maria Francis) (February 11, 1802October 20, 1880), was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist, novelist, journalist, and opponent of American expansionism.

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Mabel Loomis Todd

Mabel Loomis Todd or Mabel Loomis (November 10, 1856 – October 14, 1932) was an American editor and writer.

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Maluku Islands

The Maluku Islands or the Moluccas are an archipelago within Banda Sea, Indonesia.

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Margaret Maher

Margaret Maher (1841–1924) was a long-term domestic worker in the household of American poet Emily Dickinson.

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Martha Nell Smith

Martha Nell Smith is a professor of English and founding director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland, College Park.

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Mary Lyon

Mary Mason Lyon (February 28, 1797 – March 5, 1849) was an American pioneer in women's education.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.

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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) is the highest court in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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Massachusetts's 10th congressional district

Massachusetts's 10th congressional district is an obsolete district that includes parts of the South Shore of Massachusetts, and all of Cape Cod and the islands.

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Maurice Thompson

James Maurice Thompson (September 9, 1844 – February 15, 1901) was an American novelist, poet, essayist, archer and naturalist.

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Michael Tilson Thomas

Michael Tilson Thomas (born December 21, 1944) is an American conductor, pianist and composer.

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Modernism

Modernism is a philosophical movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Modernist poetry in English

Modernist poetry in English started in the early years of the 20th century with the appearance of the Imagists.

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Monson, Massachusetts

Monson is a town in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts college for women, in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States.

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Narcissus (plant)

Narcissus is a genus of predominantly spring perennial plants of the Amaryllidaceae (amaryllis) family.

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New Criticism

New Criticism was a formalist movement in literary theory that dominated American literary criticism in the middle decades of the 20th century.

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Newfoundland dog

The Newfoundland dog is a large working dog.

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Nick Peros

Nick Peros (born March 17, 1963) is a Canadian classical composer with an extensive catalogue of works that includes symphonic, orchestral, choral, vocal and chamber genres.

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Nosegay

A nosegay, posy, or tussie-mussie is a small flower bouquet, typically given as a gift.

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O Little Town of Bethlehem

"O Little Town of Bethlehem" is a popular Christmas carol.

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Orchidaceae

The Orchidaceae are a diverse and widespread family of flowering plants, with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant, commonly known as the orchid family.

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Othello

Othello (The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603.

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Pamela Hansford Johnson

Pamela Hansford Johnson, Baroness Snow, CBE, FRSL (29 May 1912 – 18 June 1981) was an English novelist, playwright, poet, literary and social critic.

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Pansy

The garden pansy is a type of large-flowered hybrid plant cultivated as a garden flower.

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Paralysis

Paralysis is a loss of muscle function for one or more muscles.

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Peony

The peony or paeony is a flowering plant in the genus Paeonia, the only genus in the family Paeoniaceae.

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Perfect and imperfect rhymes

Perfect rhyme—also called full rhyme, exact rhyme, or true rhyme—is a form of rhyme between two words or phrases, satisfying the following conditions.

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Persian language

Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (فارسی), is one of the Western Iranian languages within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Psalms

The Book of Psalms (תְּהִלִּים or, Tehillim, "praises"), commonly referred to simply as Psalms or "the Psalms", is the first book of the Ketuvim ("Writings"), the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and a book of the Christian Old Testament.

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Puritan migration to New England (1620–40)

The Puritan migration to New England was marked in its effects in the two decades from 1620 to 1640, after which it declined sharply for a time.

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Puritans

The Puritans were English Reformed Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to "purify" the Church of England from its "Catholic" practices, maintaining that the Church of England was only partially reformed.

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R. P. Blackmur

Richard Palmer Blackmur (January 21, 1904 – February 2, 1965) was an American literary critic and poet.

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.

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Redmond, Washington

Redmond is a city in King County, Washington, United States, located east of Seattle.

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Richard B. Sewall

Richard B. Sewall (11 February 1908-16 April 2003) was a professor of English at Yale University, and author of the influential works The Life of Emily Dickinson and The Vision of Tragedy.

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Riddle

A riddle is a statement or question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved.

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Robert Frost

Robert Lee Frost (March26, 1874January29, 1963) was an American poet.

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Roland Hagenbüchle

Roland Hagenbüchle (13 October 1932 in Frauenfeld, Switzerland – 14 January 2008) was a scholar for American Studies and cultural philosopher.

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Russian language

Russian (rússkiy yazýk) is an East Slavic language, which is official in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as being widely spoken throughout Eastern Europe, the Baltic states, the Caucasus and Central Asia.

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Salem, Massachusetts

Salem is a historic, coastal city in Essex County, Massachusetts, in the United States, located on Massachusetts' North Shore.

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Samuel Bowles (journalist)

Samuel Bowles III (February 9, 1826 – January 16, 1878) was an American journalist born in Springfield, Massachusetts.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Satire

Satire is a genre of literature, and sometimes graphic and performing arts, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.

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Second Great Awakening

The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival during the early 19th century in the United States.

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Second-wave feminism

Second-wave feminism is a period of feminist activity and thought that began in the United States in the early 1960s and lasted roughly two decades.

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Sentimentalism (literature)

Sentimentalism is a practice of being sentimental, and thus tending toward basing actions and reactions upon emotions and feelings, in preference to reason.

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South Hadley, Massachusetts

South Hadley is a town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Spanish dialects and varieties

Some of the regional varieties of the Spanish language are quite divergent from one another, especially in pronunciation and vocabulary, and less so in grammar.

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Sterling Memorial Library

Sterling Memorial Library is the main library building of the Yale University Library system in New Haven, Connecticut, United States.

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Success is Counted Sweetest

"Success is counted sweetest" is a lyric poem by Emily Dickinson written in 1859 and published anonymously in 1864.

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Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson

Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson (December 19, 1830 – May 12, 1913) was a writer, poet, traveler, and editor, as well as the sister-in-law of the American poet Emily Dickinson.

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Sweet pea

The sweet pea (Lathyrus odoratus) is a flowering plant in the genus Lathyrus in the family Fabaceae (legumes), native to Sicily, Cyprus, southern Italy and the Aegean Islands.

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T. S. Eliot

Thomas Stearns Eliot, (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965), was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets".

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Terence Davies

Terence Davies (born 10 November 1945) is an English screenwriter, film director, novelist and actor.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher, founded in 1857 as The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Belle of Amherst

The Belle of Amherst is a one-woman play by William Luce.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Dinner Party

The Dinner Party is an installation artwork by feminist artist Judy Chicago.

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The Emily Dickinson Journal

The Emily Dickinson Journal (EDJ) is a biannual academic journal founded in 1991 and is the official publication of the Emily Dickinson International Society.

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The Piano

The Piano is a 1993 New Zealand drama film about a mute piano player and her daughter, set during the mid-19th century in a rainy, muddy frontier backwater town on the west coast of New Zealand.

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The Republican (Springfield, Massachusetts)

The Republican is a newspaper based in Springfield, Massachusetts.

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The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages is a 1994 book by Harold Bloom on Western literature, in which the author defends the concept of the Western canon by discussing 26 writers whom he sees as central to the canon.

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (November 11, 1836 – March 19, 1907) was an American writer, poet, critic, and editor.

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Thomas Wentworth Higginson (December 22, 1823 – May 9, 1911) was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Transcendentalism

Transcendentalism is a philosophical movement that developed in the late 1820s and 1830s in the eastern United States.

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Tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB).

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Typhoid fever

Typhoid fever, also known simply as typhoid, is a bacterial infection due to ''Salmonella'' typhi that causes symptoms.

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Typhus

Typhus, also known as typhus fever, is a group of infectious diseases that include epidemic typhus, scrub typhus and murine typhus.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States.

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United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service (USPS; also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service) is an independent agency of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, including its insular areas and associated states.

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University of Massachusetts Press

The University of Massachusetts Press is a university press that is part of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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Variorum

A variorum is a work that collates all known variants of a text.

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Viola (plant)

Viola (and) is a genus of flowering plants in the violet family Violaceae.

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W. H. Auden

Wystan Hugh Auden (21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an English-American poet.

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Wallace Stevens

Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American Modernist poet.

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Walt Whitman

Walter "Walt" Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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William Austin Dickinson

William Austin Dickinson (April 16, 1829 – August 16, 1895) was an American lawyer.

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William Blake

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker.

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William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters".

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Yvor Winters

Arthur Yvor Winters (17 October 1900 – 25 January 1968) was an American poet and literary critic.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson

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