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<p><P>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&#151;an acute, sensitive nature reaching out boldly from self-referral to a wider, imagined world. <P>Dickinson died without fame; only a few poems were published in her lifetime. Her legacy was later rescued from her desk&#151;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.<P>Now Ralph Franklin, the foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts, has prepared an authoritative one-volume edition of all extant poems by Emily Dickinson&#151;1,789 poems in all, the largest number ever assembled. This reading edition derives from his three-volume work, <i>The Poems of Emily Dickinson&#58; Variorum Edition</i> (1998), which contains approximately 2,500 sources for the poems. In this one-volume edition,

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Author

Emily Dickinson, R. W. Franklin, Thomas H. Johnson

Publisher

Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674247246

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Poetry

Rating

4.24 / 5 (430 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14