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By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

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Always have a person in your life with whom you can share all your secrets' For me, you were that person, dadi ...

Esther Freud introduces an extract from the heartbreaking wartime diaries of Edith Velmans, born 100 years ago ...

Bob Dylan considered love through every possible lens, but these ten tracks especially stand out as his most romantic and adoring contemplations on the feeling.

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