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The most reliable reading edition of Emily Dickinson’s poetry available anywhere, edited and introduced by a renowned Dickinson scholar.Emily Dickinson wrote nearly 1,800 poems in her lifetime—an astonishing body of work defined by her extraordinary intellect, quick wit, and striking originality. Although she sent hundreds of poems by letter to friends and family over the years, Dickinson published only a handful before her death in 1886. The vast majority exist as manuscripts, from working drafts to fair copy bound in small booklets known as fascicles.The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition is the most authoritative one-volume edition of her extant work, featuring 1,789 poems total—the largest number ever assembled. It offers a single rendition of each poem, usually the latest version of the entire poem, with Dickinson's spelling, punctuation, and capitalization intact. Edited by the eminent Dickinson scholar R. W. Franklin, this edition derives from his celebrated three-volume Variorum Edition (1998).A milestone in American literary scholarship, The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition offers an indispensable window into the mind of a singular American poet.

Presented in two volumes, a beautiful facsimile edition of Emily Dickinson’s celebrated hand-sewn manuscript books.Emily Dickinson wrote nearly 1,800 poems, but published only a handful during her lifetime. Most were preserved in manuscript form, a testament to the editorial process of a strikingly original poet. Her first drafts, jotted on odd scraps of paper, were generally discarded when transcribed. Completed poems were neatly copied in ink on sheets of folded stationery, then sewn together into small manuscript books known as fascicles. After Dickinson’s death in 1886, her sister Lavinia discovered forty of these fascicles carefully stored among her papers.This elegant two-volume edition presents all of Dickinson’s manuscript books and unsewn fascicle sheets—1,148 poems on 1,250 pages—restored insofar as possible to their original order, as they were when Lavinia found them. The manuscripts are reproduced with startling fidelity, preserving every detail: the bosses on the stationery, sewing holes and tears, variants and penciled revisions, ink spots and other stains, and later markings by Susan Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd, and others.Accompanied by an informative introduction, The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson brings readers as close as possible to experiencing Dickinson's poetry in its original form.

A landmark three-volume edition of Emily Dickinson’s poetry, offering an unprecedented window into the mind of a singular American poet.Emily Dickinson wrote nearly 1,800 poems in her lifetime—an astonishing body of work defined by her extraordinary intellect, quick wit, and striking originality. Although she sent hundreds of poems by letter to friends and family over the years, she published only a handful before her death in 1886. The vast majority exist as manuscripts, from working drafts to fair copy bound in small booklets known as fascicles.A landmark in literary scholarship, The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition presents 1,789 poems—the largest number ever assembled. Arranged chronologically, each poem is rendered with Dickinson's spelling, capitalization, and punctuation. Each entry also includes Dickinson’s variants and revisions, as well as information about the poem’s publication history. Prepared by the eminent Dickinson scholar R. W. Franklin, this edition also includes a thoughtful introduction that brings readers into the history of editing Dickinson’s poems.An indispensable resource for scholars and students alike, The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition sheds new light on the creative process of an inimitable American poet.