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Spring 1956 • Vol. XVIII No. 2 • Book Reviews |

The Uses of Dr. Johnson

By Emerson R. Marks

The Achievement Of Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate. Oxford. $4.50.

 

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Emily Dickinson’s Notation

By R. P. Blackmur

The Poems of Emily Dickinson. Including variant readings critically compared with all known manuscripts. Edited by Thomas H. Johnson. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Three volumes. $25.00.Emily Dickinson: […]

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