Schlagwort: Julia Ward Howe

Never try to lift the words which you cannot hold

While Julia Ward Howe was writing her saber-rattling “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” and Whitman his “Drum-Taps,” [Emily] Dickinson was quietly demolishing myths of heroic pomposity: Finding is the first Act The second, loss, Third, Expedition for the “Golden Fleece” Fourth, no Discovery— Fifth,… Continue Reading „Never try to lift the words which you cannot hold“