Our Most American Poetess Sojourns Among the French The Vision – pondered long –So plausible becomeThat I esteem the fiction – real –The Real – fictitious seems – I knew I had made a mistake when I told my best friend that I was in love with Emily Dickinson. He stared at me, walleyed, then…

Photo courtesy of Amherst College Archives & Special Collections “Emily Dickinson’s poetry is extraordinarily musical, so attractive to the musician’s ear that I am not surprised so many composers have set it to music. In her poetry every sentence is filled with meaning, every word is precisely right, her imagery is suitable to musical setting…