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The Poems of Emily Dickinson

by Emily Dickinson

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Synopses & Reviews

Publisher Comments:

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 Editionis a milestone in American literary scholarship and an indispensable addition to the personal library of poetry lovers everywhere.

Review:

This is now the definitive text of Dickinson, a poet one can open at random and find something exhilarating.

Review:

Mr. Franklin is the recognized authority on Emily Dickinson's poetry and gives us 1,789 poems, the largest and most accurate collection of her verse...For all those who love Emily Dickinson's unique verse this is a treasure trove from which to choose. This is a publishing coup of the first order.

Review:

Not only is it the 'authoritative' and 'definitive' edition of her complete poems, it is a gorgeous volume printed by the Belknap Press, complete with a crimson ribbon bookmark...For those who like Emily Dickinson and who want all the poems as she wrote them, unmolested by well-meaning editors and thoughtless publishers, this is the book. In one volume you can hold the closest thing to the real Dickinson that anyone will ever get.

Synopsis:

Emily Dickinson died without fame; but she left behind 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--rendered with Dickinson's spelling, punctuation, and capitalization intact.

Synopsis:

Umhoefer Prize for Achievement in HumanitiesRalph 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."This is now the definitive text of Dickinson, a poet one can open at random and find something exhilarating." — The Guardian"For all those who love Emily Dickinson's unique verse this is a treasure trove from which to choose ...a publishing coup of the first order." — Contemporary Review

Table of Contents

Introduction

Poems 1-1789

Appendixes

1. Distribution by Year

2. Editorial Notes

Index of First Lines

Product Details

ISBN:
9780674676244
Subtitle:
Reading Edition
Editor:
Franklin, R. W.
Author:
Dickinson, Emily
Author:
Franklin, R. W.
Publisher:
Belknap Press
Location:
Cambridge, Mass. :
Subject:
American
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
Dickinson, emily, 1830-1886
Subject:
Single Author / American
Copyright:
Edition Number:
Reading ed.
Edition Description:
Reading
Series Volume:
105-299
Publication Date:
September 1999
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
None
Pages:
696
Dimensions:
9.53x6.31x1.68 in. 2.43 lbs.

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