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- Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
- ISBN: 067467622X
- WAPI (Tower ID): 100041466
- Release Date: October 15, 1998
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "The Poems of Emily Dickinson" by Emily Dickinson and R.W. Franklin to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "The Poems of Emily Dickinson"Browse more products related to "Emily Dickinson and R.W. Franklin"Publisher's noteThis is the first complete edition, since 1955, of the nearly 1,800 poems of Emily Dickinson. Arranged chronologically according to a new dating, and rendered in their original form, each variant text is literal-- including the poet's original spelling, punctuation and capitalization. A true collector's edition. There is a word Which bears a sword Emily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Only poems, written quietly in a room of her own, often hand-stitched in small volumes. then hidden in a desk drawer, revealed her true self. She did not live in time, as did that other great poet of the day, Wait Whitman, but in universals. As she knowingly put it: "There is one thing to be grateful for -- that one is one's self and not somebody else". Dickinson lived and died without fame: she saw only a few poems published. Her great legacy was later rescued from her desk drawer -- an astonishing body of work revealing her acute, sensitive nature reaching out boldly from self-referral to a wider, imagined world. Her family sought publication of Dickinson's poetry over the years, selecting verses, often altering her words or her punctuation, until, in 1955, the first important attempt was made to collect and publish Dickinson's work, edited by Thomas H. Johnson for the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. AnnotationThis edition of all of Emily Dickinson's poems is the first new variorum edition since the popular Johnson edition, published in 1955, which assigned the now ubiquitous numbers to the poems. The new edition differs from Johnson's in several respects. For instance, Franklin does away with the system of numbers and takes Dickinson's fascicles as the organizing principle behind his ordering of the poems. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the man of letters to whom Emily Dickinson first entrusted her poems, was dumbfounded by them, and asked, "What place ought to be assigned in literature to what is so remarkable, yet so elusive of criticism?" His question was answered only after Dickinson's death in 1886: she is now considered one of America's greatest poets. Her terse, oblique, visionary poems--only 10 of which were published in her lifetime--have almost no relation to the conventions of the second half of the 19th century, when they were written. The poems play adventurously with meter and rhyme and are completely free of the saccharine sentiments popular at the time. Irreverent, frank, eccentric, and deeply personal, Dickinson's poetry remains fresh and unique, and is always scrupulously in search of truth. As Dickinson put it herself: "Much Madness is divinest Sense--/To a discerning Eye..." If You Enjoy "The Poems of Emily Dickinson (Hardcover)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "The Poems of Emily Dickinson (Hardcover)" by Emily Dickinson (Author) and R...There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Bestsellers
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