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The American Tradition in Literature, Volume 2 Book Cover
The American Tradition in Literature, Volume 2, 10/e
George Perkins, Eastern Michigan University
Barbara Perkins, University of Toledo-Toledo


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Like the poetry of Walt Whitman, who is generally credited with the development of "free verse," Emily Dickinson spurned the fixtures and conventions of much of the didactic and morally rearming and reaffirming poetry of her period. An enigmatic character at the least, Emily Dickinson was deeply troubled by the conventional religious concepts that theologians were addressing in their day and to which she always remained aloof.