From: LouisFors <LouisFors@aol.com>
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Friends:

Just a note to share a little discovery on this lovely spring day. In 1937 the
poet, Robert Hillyer, an admirer of ED, wrote to his friend, Robert Frost,
about a conversation with Frost in 1916:

>From many conversations I remember
One on a windy day in late November
The sly recluse of Amherst in those time
Moved me, in spite of questionable rhymes.
We talked of women poets, nothing else,
>From Sappho to our friend in Sevenels.
"Miss Dickinson is best!"  You shook your head.
"Perhaps a genius, but mad," you said.


A footnote informs me that "Sevenels" is a reference to Amy Lowell.
Source:  Klaus Lubbers, _Emily Dickinson:  The Critical Revolution__, Ann
Arbor:
The University of Michigan Press, 1968,  p. 106.

Have fun,

Louis Forsdale