SOURCE: “‘Feet so precious charged’: Dickinson, Sigourney, and the Child Elegy,” in Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 13, No. 2, Fall, 1994, pp. 317-38.
In the following essay, Petrino compares the treatment of children's deaths in the poems of Dickinson and Lydia Sigourney, finding Dickinson more likely to question “the validity of consoling fictions.”
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