艾米莉·狄金森，美国十九世纪的女诗人，生前不被人知，死后被推崇为美国意象派鼻祖。今天她已和惠特曼享有同样的盛名。在美国十九世纪作家群中，许多作家、诗人生前并不首先在美国本土拥有广大读者：爱伦坡最早是在法国受到赏识的；梅尔维尔最受读者青睐的书是他的次要... Emily Dickinson, the poet of the 19th century in the United States, was unaware of his lifetime and was respected as the originator of the American imagist after his death. She has enjoyed the same reputation as Whitman today. Among the nineteenth-century writers in the United States, many writers and poets did not first have a large readership in the United States during their lifetime: Allan Poe was first appreciated in France; and Melville’s most popular book was his secondary. ..