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Critic Elizabeth Petrino makes the case that while Emily Dickinson seemed to be following various conventions of nineteenth century women’s poetry, especially in the lyrics of loss, death, and love, she frequently “transformed” those conventions (Petrino 210). Four of Dickinson’s 1858 poems about death, for example, illustrate the ways she often chose to reach such a sense of transformation.
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Wagner-Martin, L. (2013). Losses into Art. In: Emily Dickinson. Literary Lives. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137033062_3
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