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But the fact is that she did not live in history and held no view of it past or current ( L xx).ġ986: Ralph W.

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Since Emily Dickinson's full maturity as a dedicated artist occurred during the span of the Civil War, the most convulsive era of the nation's history, one of course turns to the letters of 1861- 1865, and the years that follow, for her interpretation of events. Johnson: Introduction to The Letters of Emily Dickinson. Stray marks have been ignored.' ( ML 10)ġ958: Thomas H. Periods, commas, question marks, ending quotation marks, and the like, have no space preceding them, however situated in the manuscripts. Dashes of any length are represented by an en dash, spaced on each side. No attempt has been made to indicate the amount of space between words, or between words and punctuation, or to indicate, for example, the length of a dash, its angle, spatial relation to adjoining words or distance from the line of inscription. No important changes in form' ( PED liv).ġ986: 'Standard typesetting conventions have also been followed in regard to spacing and punctuation. Franklin, in 1986, this time published by the Amherst College Press, show me that in a system of restricted exchange, the subject-creator and her art in its potential gesture were domesticated and occluded by an assumptive privileged Imperative.Ī Concrete Community of Exchange Among Peersġ951: '1860: Alignment of words less regular, letters in a word sometimes diminishing in size toward the end, which gives an uneven effect to the page. Franklin and again published by the Belknap Press of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, in 1981, and The Master Letters of Emily Dickinson, also edited by R.W. Nearly forty years later, The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson, edited by R. For a long time I believed that this editor had given us the poems as they looked. Johnson and first published by the Belknap Press of Harvard University in 1951, later digested into a one-volume edition, to which I do not refer because of Johnson's further acknowledged editorial emendations. My ways are not your ways-Īn idea of the author Emily Dickinson-her symbolic value and aesthetic functionhas been shaped by The Poems of Emily Dickinson Including variant readings critically compared with all known manuscripts, edited by Thomas H. It is strange that the most intangible is the heaviest-but Joy and Gravitation have their own ways. Spirit cannot be moved by Flesh-It must be moved by spirit. These Flames and Generosities of the HeartĮmily Dickinson and the Illogic of Sumptuary Values From The Birth-Mark: Unsettling the Wilderness