Houghton Mifflin turned down the opportunity to publish Dickinson’s poetry in 1890. They said her poems “were much too queer – the rhymes were all wrong.” A representative at Roberts Brothers said, “It has always seemed to me that it would be unwise to perpetuate Miss Dickinson’s poems.”
Arlo Bates, a poet and reader for Roberts Brothers, said that Dickinson combined "the insight of the civilized adult with the simplicity of the savage child.”
A review of Bates’ work by the Boston Herald in the 1890s stated that he “gives greater promise of high and enduring power than almost any other American poet of our own generation.”
I thought it might be interesting to compare a few poems by Dickinson and Bates.
Here are also a few poems by Bates compared to three poems of Dickinson’s with similar themes. Let me know what you think.
Arlo Bates, a poet and reader for Roberts Brothers, said that Dickinson combined "the insight of the civilized adult with the simplicity of the savage child.”
A review of Bates’ work by the Boston Herald in the 1890s stated that he “gives greater promise of high and enduring power than almost any other American poet of our own generation.”
I thought it might be interesting to compare a few poems by Dickinson and Bates.
Here are also a few poems by Bates compared to three poems of Dickinson’s with similar themes. Let me know what you think.
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