Second-wave feminist writers she was the greatest woman poet to have written in English. Feminist appraisals of her work led to increased cultural sympathy towards Dickinson's poetry.
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Before the second-wave feminist reappraisal, scholars treated Dickinson's roles as woman and poet as separate. Feminist scholars suggested that Dickinson's identity as a woman was central to her identity as a poet.