Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
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Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the excitement of each story. Appropriate "reader friendly" type sizes have been chosen for each title—offering clear, accurate, and readable text. All editions are complete and unabridged, and feature Introductions and Afterwords.This edition of Emily Dickinson's Selected Poems includes an Index of First Lines as well as an Afterword and Biographical Note by Debra Fried of Cornell University.Dressed always in white Emily isolates herself in her room, rarely straying from her Main Street home in Amherst, M.A. What is she doing?She's changing the world.She's shattering rules.Smashing rules about poems, and words, and how to use them.Challenging rules about woman can say and think. Destroying rules about how we can look at the universe, life, god and the mysteries of the night...To hear the truth sometimes you must be alone.To tell your visions,sometimes you must break rules.Emily does.
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
