SOURCE: “‘A Slow Solace’: Emily Dickinson and Consolation,” in The New England Quarterly, Vol. LXII, No. 3, September, 1989, pp. 323-45.
In the following essay, Buell traces Dickinson's attitude toward death and aging, suggesting that Dickinson came to accept death in her later life and found consolation in nature.
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