The Spirit Is the Conscious Ear

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Published 1896

This short poem was published posthumously in the 1896 collection Poems by Emily Dickinson. It circulated after Dickinson’s lifetime as part of efforts to assemble her unpublished manuscripts. The poem’s publication history places it within the late-19th-century reception that shaped Dickinson’s public reputation and the editorial practices that organized and sometimes retitled her work for Victorian readers.