The Letters of Emily Dickinson: A Reminiscence by Thomas Wentworth Higginson from “The Atlantic Monthly” October 1891

This recitation of Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s October 1891 Atlantic Monthly article on his correspondence and friendship with Emily Dickinson documents the only example of the reclusive Massachusetts poet turning “to the literary world beyond her circle of friends in Amherst,” as Samuel Charters wrote in his liner notes. Higginson reluctantly published the article, which includes some of the letters and poems he received from Dickinson, in response to public demand for more information about the poet whose posthumous publication earned “a suddenness of success almost without a parallel in American literature,” according to the introduction he wrote for the Atlantic . Charters, who read the article for the recording, also supplied a critical introduction to Dickinson’s life and work for the liner notes.

Track Listing

101	The First Letters	Samuel Charters	17:15
102	Letters in the War	Samuel Charters	04:22
201	The Continuing Friendship	Samuel Charters	06:05
202	The First Meeting	Samuel Charters	07:49
203	The Letters of the Last Years	Samuel Charters	07:30