Question

Barton Levi St. Armand coined the goofy term “The Romance of Daisy and Phoebus” for a relationship with this figure, who is addressed in a text beginning “I am ill - but grieving more that you are ill.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Identify this mysterious figure who is the subject of a plea to “open your life wide, and take me in forever,” and is asked “Couldn't Carlo, and you and I walk in the meadows an hour” in two passionate letters written in 1861.
ANSWER: the Master [accept the Master Letters; accept but DO NOT OTHERWISE MENTION answers like “Emily Dickinson's Master”]
[10e] The three “Master letters” are among the most-studied entries in the surviving correspondence of this reclusive American poet known as the “Belle of Amherst.”
ANSWER: Emily Dickinson
[10m] The third “Master” letter ends with a couplet stating “No rose, yet felt myself a'bloom, / No” one of these creatures, “yet rode in Ether.” The speaker offers one “a Crumb” in a Dickinson poem describing how one of them “came down the walk.”
ANSWER: a bird [accept “A Bird came down the Walk”; reject putative synonyms or types of birds]
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