Poem 'Success is counted sweetest' Published in A Masque of Poets
Poet involved
What happened
In 1878, Helen Hunt Jackson included Emily Dickinson's poem 'Success is counted sweetest' in A Masque of Poets, an anonymous collection of poetry published in Boston, Massachusetts. This was one of the few publications of Dickinson's work during her lifetime, and it appeared without her name attached.
Literary impact
Jackson's inclusion of Dickinson's poem in a prestigious anthology represented a significant act of literary advocacy, though Dickinson herself remained ambivalent about the exposure. The poem's meditation on the nature of success and failure, with its famous assertion that 'success is counted sweetest / By those who ne'er succeed,' would become one of Dickinson's most frequently anthologized works.
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