SOURCE: “The Naked and the Veiled: Sylvia Plath and Emily Dickinson in Counterpoint,” in Dickinson Studies, No. 45, June, 1983, pp. 23-34.
In the following essay, Harris compares Dickinson's response to death with that of poet Sylvia Plath, finding that Plath tends to be more explicit and Dickinson more transcendent in their attitudes.
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