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...
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.
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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...