Is there something missing from the text: "it as readily left him ungrounded"?

To make the abstract tangible, to define meaning without confining it, to inhabit a house that never became a prison, Dickinson created in her writing a distinctively elliptical language for expressing what was possible but not yet realized. Like the Concord Transcendentalists whose works she knew well, she saw poetry as a double-edged sword. While it liberated the individual, it as readily left him ungrounded.

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Is there something missing from the text: "it as readily left him ungrounded"?

To make the abstract tangible, to define meaning without confining it, to inhabit a house that never became a prison, Dickinson created in her writing a distinctively elliptical language for expressing what was possible but not yet realized. Like the Concord Transcendentalists whose works she knew well, she saw poetry as a double-edged sword. While it liberated the individual, it as readily left him ungrounded.

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In that context it is fine. It means "equally" or "just as much"

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to immediately leave one mentally and emotionally stable, admirably sensible, realistic, focused, and unpretentious.

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