Otis Phillips Lord

Standard Name: Lord, Otis Phillips

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Emily Dickinson
Judge Otis Phillips Lord , the man ED hoped to marry, died of a stroke.
Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. Emily Dickinson. Knopf, 1986.
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Family and Intimate relationships Emily Dickinson
ED was probably romantically interested in at least two men, Ben Newton and Samuel Bowles , before meeting the lawyer Otis Phillips Lord . Although they were separated in age by nearly twenty years, it...
Textual Features Emily Dickinson
ED 's poems on love, also like Rossetti 's, were fixated on love deferred and the impossibility of actual connection between the lovers. For example, poem #511 is about waiting to meet with a lover...

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