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Apr 26, 2024 · The first letter here is written by an 11-year-old Dickinson to her brother Austin, away at school. It’s a breathless, kid-sister-marvel of run-on sentences about yellow hens and a “skonk” and poor “Cousin Zebina [who] had a fit the other day and bit his tongue…”. The final letter, by an ailing 55-year-old Dickinson — most likely ...
The Letters of Emily Dickinson. Wed., April 3, 4:30pm ET. HYBRID PROGRAM — In-person at Amherst College’s Frost Library and streaming live for online registrants. Celebrating a new edition of Emily Dickinson’s correspondence — expanded and revised for the first time in over sixty years. REGISTER.
The 1955 edition of Emily Dickinson’s poetry–the first complete edition–edited by Thomas Johnson, led to the publication of the impressive three-volume The Letters of Emily Dickinson (1958). Edited by Johnson and Theodora Van Wagenen Ward, The Letters of Emily Dickinson was the first work to contain all known extant letters from the poet ...
The Letters of Emily Dickinson. combines under a single cover all 1,049 letters in the 1958 edition, together with the many letters discovered and published since 1958 but previously uncollected. It also contains a few letters that have never been published and several letters for which previously missing text.
Apr 2, 2024 · A newly expanded, annotated edition of the poet’s letters, the first in more than 60 years. Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) is one of the most recognizable poets in history. Yet, as the editors note in the introduction, she “was a letter writer before she was a poet.”. She was a prolific and passionate correspondent, and this new edition ...
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Apr 2, 2024 · It presents all 1,304 of her extant letters, along with the small number available from her correspondents. Almost 300 are previously uncollected, including letters published after 1958, letters more recently discovered in manuscript, and more than 200 “letter-poems” that Dickinson sent to correspondents without accompanying prose.
Reading Emily Dickinson’s letters alongside her poems helps students to better appreciate a remarkable voice in American literature, grasp how Dickinson perceived herself and her poetry, and—perhaps most relevant to their own endeavors—consider the ways in which a writer constructs a “supposed person.”.
