Poetry can unite people when all seems lost. The Conversation US has pulled together four articles from its archives that speak on the power of poetry.
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Articles on Emily Dickinson
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Rachel Hadas says that despite the cascade of scary news, humans will adapt, as they always have – and provides evidence of that resilience in the literature she loves and teaches.
Hope does not ride alone. It has a companion: anxiety. A classics scholar who is a poet notes that, at what may be the end of a long and dark pandemic year, both are in evidence.
190 years after her birth, Dickinson’s life reminds us of how to confront the depths of loss with courage and hope.
Women have been there in their imaginations.
A Quiet Passion, a film about Emily Dickinson’s life, opens in cinemas this week. Dickinson wrote 1789 poems in her lifetime: only ten were published.
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Rachel Hadas is a Friend of The Conversation.Professor of English, Rutgers University - Newark
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Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Université de Lille
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Lecturer in English, Loughborough University
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James J. Stansell Assistant Professor of Classics and Humanities, San Diego State University
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Assistant Professor of English, Arizona State University
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Associate Professor of Literacy, Mississippi State University
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Associate Professor of Literatures in English, Cornell University
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Assistant Teaching Professor of English, West Virginia University
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Associate Lecturer in Literary Studies, Western Sydney University
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Instructor of Gender & Race Studies, University of Alabama
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Lecturer in English, Loughborough University
