"I sued the News yet feared the News" By Emily Dickinson [Analysis]

I sued the News yet feared the News [1] That such a Realm could be [2] "The House not made with Hands" it was [3] Thrown open wide to me [4]
Poem 1360 [F1391] "I sued the News yet feared the News" Analysis by David Preest [Poem]

This poem is part of a letter (L458) to Thomas Higginson praising him for his first book 'Out-Door Papers' (= 'the News' of the poem). The poem is introduced by the words, 'Your thought is so serious and captivating, that it leaves one stronger and weaker too. . .It is still as distinct as Paradise the opening your first Book. It was Mansions Nations Kinsmen too to me.' In the poem she says that she eagerly read his book but was in awe of it at the same time, for it revealed to her that 'Realm' described by St Paul when he says, 'For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle was dissolved, we have a building of God, an "house not made with hands," eternal in the heavens' (2 Corinthians 5:1).
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