Poems

by Emily Dickinson

Overview

A foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts has prepared an authoritative one-volume edition of all extant poems--1,789 in all--by the reclusive poet.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781537004471
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	08/10/2016
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.45(d)

Table of Contents

VOLUME I
Introduction
Poems 1-526

VOLUME II
Poems 527-1287

VOLUME III
Poems 1288-1789

Appendixes
Poems Published in Emily Dickinson's Lifetime
Distribution by Year
Later Manuscripts
Fascicles and Sets: Transcriptions
Fascicles and Sets: The Manuscript Books (1981)
Titles, Characterizations, Signatures
Recipients
Secondary Sources
Additional Poems, Separated Poems, Excluded Texts
Word Division
Emendation
Re-dated Letters
Some Early Texts
Poems Attributed to Emily Dickinson

Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index of Johnson Numbers
Index of First Lines

Editorial Reviews

...Franklin...now offers us a new text — one that builds on [Thomas H.]Johnson's project while accommodating some of the criticisms of the intervening years....thanks to Franklin, our speculations about the real Emily Dickinson will be grounded in more finely calibrated texts. I will, however, miss the simplicity of an earlier time, when a more biographically accessible Dickinson spoke to me...
—Women's Review of Books

Vivian Pollak

...Franklin...now offers us a new text -- one that builds on [Thomas H.]Johnson's project while accommodating some of the criticisms of the intervening years....thanks to Franklin, our speculations about the real Emily Dickinson will be grounded in more finely calibrated texts. I will, however, miss the simplicity of an earlier time, when a more biographically accessible Dickinson spoke to me... -- The Women's Review of Books

Vivian Pollak