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By way of transition from what has gone before to the theme of this chapter, I should like to begin with this poem of Emily Dickinson’s:
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See, for example, A. Alvarez’s Introduction to his selection, The New Poetry (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962). He speaks of what he calls ‘the gentility principle’ and a ‘relative failure of talent’ in the English poetry of the period. See also Donald Davié s Thomas Hardy and British Poetry.
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Stocks, K. (1988). The Realism of the ‘Solid Town’. In: Emily Dickinson and the Modern Consciousness. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19134-5_8
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