The Poems of Emily Dickinson

Résumé du livre

Dickinson lived and died without fame: she saw only a few poems published. Her great legacy was later rescued from her desk drawer -- an astonishing body of work revealing her acute, sensitive nature reaching out boldly from self-referral to a wider, imagined world. Her family sought publication of Dickinson's poetry over the years, selecting verses, often altering her words or her punctuation, until, in 1955, the first important attempt was made to collect and publish Dickinson's work, edited by Thomas H. Johnson for the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.