Unfortunately, these fascicles were disbound by the poet’s earliest editors. These manuscripts record the variations in word choice Dickinson considered. In addition to preserving more than 1,000 poems and some 300 letters in her hand, the library also holds the poet’s writing table and chair, the Dickinson family library including the poet's bible, as well as Dickinson's herbarium.Īt the heart of the collection are 40 hand-sewn manuscript books, or fascicles, in which the poet copied her poems. Houghton's Dickinson Collection is the largest in the world. "With its chronological arrangement of the poems, this volume becomes more than just a collection it is at the same time a poetic biography of the thoughts and feelings of a woman whose beauty was deep and lasting.Houghton Library holds the papers of many American writers, including those of the 19th-century Amherst poet Emily Dickinson. This book, a distillation of the three-volume Complete Poems, brings together the original texts of all 1,775 poems that Emily Dickinson wrote. Johnson, were readers able for the first time to assess, understand, and appreciate the whole of Dickinson's extraordinary poetic genius. Not until the 1955 publication of The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, a three-volume critical edition compiled by Thomas H. Early posthumous published collections - some of them featuring liberally "edited" versions of the poems - did not fully and accurately represent Dickinson's bold experiments in prosody, her tragic vision, and the range of her intellectual and emotional explorations.
Only eleven of Emily Dickinson's poems were published prior to her death in 1886 the startling originality of her work doomed it to obscurity in her lifetime.
This comprehensive and authoritative collection of all 1,775 poems by Emily Dickinson is an essential volume for all lovers of American literature.
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