Although Genevieve Taggard's poetry was well known in her time to both literary and popular audiences, her work as a poet is now largely forgotten, and she is best known as the author of The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson (1930). A passionate, intuitive, and bold interpretation of the father-daughter relationship and of Dickinson's psychology, it proposed George Gould as Dickinson's mysterious lover and her father as a repressive villain. The book was based on Taggard's acquaintance with people who remembered Dickinson, reinforced with meticulous scholarship. It has since been superseded but was well received at the time. In addition to poetry and scholarly work, Taggard wrote short stories, reviews, essays, and articles on poetic theory. She edited literary journals and anthologies. Yet her first commitment was to the writing of poetry, and at her best, she produced some fine poems containing imagery still vivid today. Her writer...