The Belle and the Bard

Fame of all sorts is strange, but literary fame creates a particular puzzle. Each in their own way, William Shakespeare and Emily Dickinson courted adulation and hid from the public eye. Can sitting in his chair, or walking in her room, really get us any closer to their true selves?
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