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The Poems of Emily Dickinson
(Variorum Edition) Book Description
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 drawer, revealed her true self. She did
not live in time but in universals-an acute,
sensitive nature reaching out boldly from
self-referral to a wider, imagined world. Dickinson
died without fame; only a few poems were published
in her lifetime. Her legacy was later rescued from
her desk-an astonishing body of work, much of which
has since appeared in piecemeal editions, sometimes
with words altered by editors or publishers
according to the fashion of the day. Ralph Franklin,
the foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts, has
prepared an authoritative one-volume edition of all
extant poems by Emily Dickinson-1,789 poems in all,
the largest number ever assembled. This reading
edition derives from his three-volume work, The
Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition (1998),
which contains approximately 2,500 sources for the
poems. In this one-volume edition, Franklin offers a
single reading of each poem-usually the latest
version of the entire poem-rendered with Dickinson's
spelling, punctuation, and capitalization intact.
The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition is a
milestone in American literary scholarship and an
indispensable addition to the personal library of
poetry lovers everywhere. |
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