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I should like to begin this section with a fairly close look at the following poem by Emily Dickinson (it is, I think, a key poem for the understanding both of herself as poet and of our time — a poem in which the personal, subjective experience embodied in it is very clearly also representative of the consciousness of our age):

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Stocks, K. (1988). Manacle, Death, Time. In: Emily Dickinson and the Modern Consciousness. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19134-5_4

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