Letter from Emily Dickinson to the author Thomas Wentworth Higginson, as published in the Atlantic in 1891.‘You speak kindly of seeing me could it please your convenience to come so far as Amherst, I should be very glad, but I do not cross my father’s ground to any house or town’ More than 170 poems are included here, among them ‘“Hope” is the thing with feathers-’, ‘Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-’ and ‘Because I could not stop for Death-’, as well as lesser-known works. Johnson, who restored the unique form of the originals. This edition follows the 1955 text edited by Thomas H. What’s more, her radical approach to rhyme, punctuation and capitalisation led her early editors to make substantial alterations to her verse, diluting her poems’ power in the process. The translucent dust jacket superimposes her figure on a wild, rural landscape, reflecting at once her removal from and deep connectedness to the world outside her home.ĭickinson wrote more than 1,800 poems, of which a mere handful were published in her lifetime. Like the binding design, they draw on Dickinson’s love of nature. This Folio edition, introduced by the multi-award-winning poet Lavinia Greenlaw, features integrated wood engravings by Jane Lydbury.
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