emily dickinson s poems as she preserved them

Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them Harvard Univers…. Cristanne Miller’s major edition of Emily Dickinson’s poems foregrounds the copies and versions of poems that the poet kept for herself during her lifetime, in the form in which she retained them. While there is no clear evidence as to whether she retained some of the extant manuscripts, we know with certainty that she retained the more than 1,100 poems she either bound into booklets (called “ fascicles ” by Dickinson scholars) or copied systematically in fair hand onto unbound.

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Widely considered the definitive edition of Emily Dickinson’s poems, this landmark collection presents her poems here for the first time “as she preserved them,” and in the order in which she wished them to appear. It is the only edition of Dickinson’s complete poems to distinguish clearly those she took pains to copy carefully onto folded sheets in fair hand—presumably to preserve them.

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