Three years ago, during a two-day Emily Dickinson festival in Amherst, at which some of these views were aired, the poet Susan Snively introduced the final session with a word admitting her own confusion. She said, “I feel like the master of ceremonies on the TV show What’s My Line?” when he comes to the pay-off question, ‘Will the real Emily Dickinson please stand up?’“
The program she is thinking of is not What's My Line; it is To Tell the Truth.
