If we could hear how people spoke in the past, would we perceive the same kind of poetry? Reconstructing Emily Dickinson's original pronunciation of nineteenth-century New England, this essay casts new light on how the poet could have sounded her own verses and how her famous “slant” rhymes have been misheard.
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