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. Now 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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