Although Emily Dickinson (not Dickerson) has written under the influence of Romanticism, which was the era in which she was born, no, she is not a Romantic writer. Emily Dickinson is in fact a Renaissance writer, which happened in America from about 1830 to around the Civil War.
The answer is spirit of antiquity.
The Taotie! It's a motif that was commonly found on ritual vessels from the Shang and Zhou dynasty.
