Emily Dickinson: Selected Letters
When the complete Letters of Emily Dickinson appeared in three volumes in 1958, Robert Kirsch welcomed them in the Los Angeles Times, saying "These missives offer access to the mind and heart of one of America's most intriguing literary personalities." This one-volume selection is at last available in paperback. It provides crucial texts for the appreciation of American literature, women's experience in the nineteenth century, and literature in general.
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When the complete Letters of Emily Dickinson appeared in three volumes in 1958, Robert Kirsch welcomed them in the Los Angeles Times, saying "These missives offer access to the mind and heart of one of America's most intriguing literary personalities." This one-volume selection is at last available in paperback. It provides crucial texts for the appreciation of American literature, women's experience in the nineteenth century, and literature in general.The Times[These letters] present us with as inward a view of one of God's rarer creatures as we are likely to be given...The letters themselves are as no others. The briefest line can be a mystery (and, when fathomed, a communion), the formal note a sign...If [these letters] are put alongside those of...Coleridge and Keats, they will present the most striking contrast in a poet's reactions and sensibilities. But they will stand there unashamed.
AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction. "Called Back": Scenes of Reading and Writing1Ch. 1Flyleaves: Toward a Poetics of Reading Emily Dickinson's Late Writings11Ch. 2Lost Events: Toward a Poetics of Editing Emily Dickinson's Late Writings41Ch. 3Open Folios: An Experimental Edition of Forty of Emily Dickinson's Drafts and Fragments55Appendix 1. The Bingham, Leyda, and Johnson Collections273Appendix 2. Sequences and Dates278Appendix 3. History of Manuscript Ownership281Appendix 4. Mutilated Manuscripts and Missing Leaves284Appendix 5. The Johnson Reconstructions286Appendix 6. Transcripts289Appendix 7. Excluded Manuscripts290Appendix 8. Paper Types291Notes293Bibliography303
\ The Times[These letters] present us with as inward a view of one of God's rarer creatures as we are likely to be given...The letters themselves are as no others. The briefest line can be a mystery (and, when fathomed, a communion), the formal note a sign...If [these letters] are put alongside those of...Coleridge and Keats, they will present the most striking contrast in a poet's reactions and sensibilities. But they will stand there unashamed.\ \ \ \ \ \ ListenerShe was no solemn bookworm destined to grow into a crabbed recluse, but a lively original creature, fully participating in the joys and despairs of a busy circle of friends and relatives...Here was a woman capable of the most intense emotion who was forced, or forced herself, to crystallize her feelings into words and phrases. The letters and poems are all of a piece. The letters, in fact, read sometimes like the raw materials of the poems.\ \ \ \ BooknewsBased on the proceedings of an international symposium organized by the Food Chemistry Group of the Royal Society of Chemistry at the U. of East Anglia, Norwich, England, March 1990. The central theme is the role of food macromolecules in determining the stability, structure, texture, and rheology of food colloids, with particular reference to gelling behavior and interactions between macromolecules and interfaces. A notable feature is the wide range of physicochemical techniques which are now being used to address the problems in this field. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
