The Poems of Emily Dickinson - Variorum Edition

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 desk drawer, revealed her true self. She did not live in time, as did that other great poet of the day, Walt Whitman, but in universals. As she knowingly put it: "There is one thing to be grateful for--that one is one's self and not somebody else."

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.

Product details

• Authors: Emily Dickinson
• Assisted by: R. W. Franklin (Editor), Franklin R. W. (Editor)
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.1998
• EAN: 9780674676220
• ISBN: 978-0-674-67622-0
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 241 mm x 114 mm
• Weight: 2926 g
• Illustrations: 7 halftones
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, Poetry by individual poets, Poetry / poems by individual poets