The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition

Dickinson, Emily (author); edited by R.W. Franklin

ISBN 10: 0674018249 / ISBN 13: 9780674018242

Published by Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 2005

Trade paperback, tight binding, clean copy but for a few pages on ink notations; sale stickers on read cover. Seller Inventory # SNS-Poetry-Emily-Dickinson

Synopsis:

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.

About the Author: R. W. Franklin was Director of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University. He received the Emily Dickinson International Society’s Award for Outstanding Contribution.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition
Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition