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Entry: Emily Dickinson - A741368
Author: J'au-æmne, Princess of Darkness, Thingite Star Gazer - U106694

This entry is based upon A439463 - Emily Dickinson - by Archangel Dragonfly U98816

I have rearranged and reformatted and changed it to some small degree... ...I hope that now it can be included in the edited guide.

I hope so too - it is a very fine entry.

I would suggest changing the title to something like 'Emily Dickinson - the Poet', since that's the h2g2 house style and not everyone will have heard of her. I was also a bit puzzled by the oddly-phrased bit about '...a woman who she was, it is debated, sexually attracted to...'. I think I know what you mean, but who exactly is debating this question? Finally, a brief explanation of who Judith Farr is, and where that quote you've used comes from, might be in order.

Those nitpicks aside, very good work!

Though my barbarian upbringing precludes any hope of my appreciating poetry, this was a nice entry.



- Jimi X

I like dthis article very much . I like Dickinson's work even though she is, to put it mildly, eccentric.
Wendy Cope made me chuckle when she wrote:
'Higgledy-Piggledy
Emily Dickinson
Liked to use dashes
Instead of full stops.
Nowadays, faced with such
Idiosyncrasies
Readers and editors
Call for the cops.'

I have the authentic Dickinson at home, with all the dashes in. I think it was published by Faber and had an introduction by Ted Hughes. How she managed to write so much about love without indulging in it much at first hand shows that, at the very least, she had a vivid imagination.

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nice one! that was painless! I'd actually completely forgotten I'd put this into peer review until today!

Judy Farr wrote one of the books cited in the bibliography. Since i only really edited the entry I can't say much more about her than that.

It's always nice when that happens...



- Jimi X

Good to see this heading for the Edited Guide!