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By Patricia Harris and David Lyon, Globe Correspondents

Emily Dickinson Museum

Were she around today, the ‘‘belle of Amherst’’ would probably eschew Twitter and gaze on Facebook with horror. ‘‘To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else,’’ she wrote, and to a great extent ‘‘anything else’’ included even leaving the Homestead where she was born and spent most of her life (1830-86). The museum includes the adjacent Evergreens, where Dickinson’s relatives lived well into the 20th century, but the Homestead is more evocative of one of the most startling poets in English. Her re-created bedroom conjures her delicate spirit, while the dining room exhibit chronicles how her so private poetry would become some of the country’s greatest verse.
Were she around today, the ‘‘belle of Amherst’’ would probably eschew Twitter and gaze on Facebook with horror. ‘‘To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else,’’ she wrote, and to a great extent ‘‘anything else’’ included even leaving the Homestead where she was born and spent most of her life (1830-86). The museum includes the adjacent Evergreens, where Dickinson’s relatives lived well into the 20th century, but the Homestead is more evocative of one of the most startling poets in English. Her re-created bedroom conjures her delicate spirit, while the dining room exhibit chronicles how her so private poetry would become some of the country’s greatest verse.
Courtesy of Emily Dickinson Museum

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