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Mystery and Mystification
Hicks, Granville | June 25, 1930 issue

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The article gives information about the book "The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson," by Genevieve Taggard. The world has no right to know the identity of artist Emily Dickinson's lover and that the desire to learn his name is merely a matter of cheap curiosity. It assumes both that an artist may be regarded as family property and that the facts of an artist's life are irrelevant to the appreciation of his work. The first assumption is arrogant and stupid. The second might possibly be defended, but surely not by one who has written a biography of the poet in question. To understand the growth of the poet's mind people need to know something of the mind of the man whom she loved and renounced.

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BOOKS & reading; LIFE & Mind of Emily Dickinson, The (Book); TAGGARD, Genevieve; DICKINSON, Emily, 1830-1886; POETS; BIOGRAPHY
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