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Emily Dickinson Wrote A Letter To The World And Left It Lying In Her Drawer More Than A Century Ago. This Widely Admired Epistle Was Her Poems, Which Were Never Conventionally Published In Book Form During Her Lifetime. Since The Posthumous Discovery Of Her Work, General Readers And Literary Scholars Alike Have Puzzled Over This Paradox Of Wanting To Communicate Widely And Yet Apparently Refusing To Publish. In This Pathbreaking Study, Martha Nell Smith Unravels The Paradox By Boldly Recasting Two Of The Oldest And Still Most Frequently Asked Questions About Emily Dickinson: Why Didn't She Publish More Poems While She Was Alive? And Who Was Her Most Important Contemporary Audience? Regarding The Question Of Publication, Smith Urges A Reconception Of The Act Of Publication Itself.^ She Argues That Dickinson Did Publish Her Work In Letters And In Forty Manuscript Books That Circulated Among A Cultured Network Of Correspondents, Most Important Of Whom Was Her Sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson. Rather Than Considering This Material Unpublished Because Unprinted, Smith Views Its Alternative Publication As A Conscious Strategy On The Poet's Part, A Daring Poetic Experimen

Author

Martha Nell Smith

Publisher

Austin: University of Texas Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780292776661

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Poetry, Literary Fiction

Updated

2026-03-24