 | Albert Shaw - 1892 - 790 pages
...16, 1862, Mr. Higginson received this letter, which must have astonished him i " MR. HIOQINSON : — Are you too deeply occupied to say if my verse is...itself it cannot see distinctly and I have none to ask. " Should you think it breathed, and had you the leisure to tell me, I should feel quick gratitude.... | |
 | 1895 - 602 pages
...Higginson. The first letter, dated April 16, 1862, is evidence to the point : Mr. Higginson, are you loo deeply occupied to say if my verse is alive ? The...it cannot see distinctly, and I have none to ask. Should jou think it breathed, and had you the leisure to tell me, I should feel quick gratitude. If... | |
 | Emily Dickinson - 1906 - 492 pages
...rather than another's, — an intuition most happily justified. [April 16, 1862.] \ MR HIGGINSON, — Are you too deeply occupied to say if my verse is...it cannot see distinctly, and I have none to ask. Should you think it breathed, and had you the leisure to tell me, I should feel quick gratitude. If... | |
 | Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi - 1924 - 428 pages
...tradition's buttonhole, And send the rose to you. To Colonel TW Higginson [April 16, 1862] MR. HIGGINSON, — Are you too deeply occupied to say if my verse is...it cannot see distinctly, and I have none to ask. Should you think it breathed, and had you the leisure to tell me, I should feel quick gratitude. If... | |
 | Emily Dickinson, Martha Dickinson Bianchi - 1924 - 432 pages
...E. To Colonel TW Higginson [April 10, 1862] MR. HIGGINSON, — Are you too deeply occupied to sayuf my verse is alive? \ The mind is so near itself it cannot see distinctly, and I have none to ask. Should you think it breathed, and had you the leisure to tell me, I should feel quick gratitude. If... | |
 | 1891 - 1024 pages
...office in Worcester, Mass., where I was then living, the following letter : — Мк. HIGOTNSON, — Are you too deeply occupied to say if my verse is...The mind is so near itself it cannot see distinctly, und I have none to ask. Should you think it breathed, and had you the leisure to tell me, I should... | |
 | Norman Rosten - 1967 - 68 pages
...On April 16th of that year, I received a reply that began as follows: (Reads.) "Mr. Higginson,—Are you too deeply occupied to say if my verse is alive?...it cannot see distinctly, and I have none to ask. Should you think it breathed, and had you the leisure to tell me, 1 should feel quick gratitude . .... | |
 | Emily Dickinson - 1959 - 172 pages
...highly cryptic, there is no guarantee against occasional misinterpretation. JR Vlll Mr. Higginson, — Are you too deeply occupied to say if my verse is...it cannot see distinctly, and I have none to ask. Should you think it breathed, and had you the leisure to tell me, I should feel quick gratitude. If... | |
 | Wendy Martin - 1984 - 286 pages
...Unrealized" (no. 3i9).12 The covering letter asks quite simply, "[Is] my Verse alive?" She tells him that "The Mind is so near itself — it cannot see, distinctly — and I have none to ask — " (L, 2 : 403, no. 260). Again, she has placed herself at the mercy of a powerful male; not only... | |
 | Peter J. Conn - 1989 - 624 pages
...sought literary advice. She did write to the critic Thomas Wentworth Higginson in 1862, abruptly asking, "Are you too deeply occupied to say if my Verse is alive?" Higginson, an abolitionist and admirer of John Brown, was radical in politics but conservative in aesthetics.... | |
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MR. HIGGINSON, — Are you too deeply occupied to say if my verse is alive? The mind is so near itself it cannot see distinctly, and I have none to ask. 
