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Excerpt. ''© Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. From Rachel Wetzsteon′s introduction to *The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson * Emily Dickinson, writing to the editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson in July 1862, reported that she “had no portrait,” but offered the following description in place of one: “Small, like the Wren, and my Hair is bold, like the Chestnut Bur—and my eyes, like the Sherry in the Glass, that the Guest leaves—Would this do just as well?” ( Selected Letters , edited by Thomas H. Johnson, p. 175; see “For Further Reading”). Despite Dickinson′s claim, we do possess one photograph of her—a daguerreotype taken in 1847 or 1848, when she was in her late teens. The image certainly confirms her self-portrait: Her frame is tiny; her shiny hair does indeed sit boldly atop her head; and her dark eyes really do glisten like liquor at the bottom of a glass. The photograph also suggests many of the rich puzzles and paradoxes that have informed our view of Dickinson since the last decade of the nineteenth century, when readers and critics began to read, study, and obsess over her poems. Dickinson′s body, with its deli

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Author

Dickinson, Emily; Wetzsteon, Rachel

Publisher

Barnes & Noble Classics

Published

1896

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

History, Poetry, American Poetry

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2026-03-14