{"product_id":"the-poems-of-emily-dickinson-reading-edition-belknap","title":"The Poems of Emily Dickinson","description":"\u003cp\u003eEmily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words\/swords, hurling barbed syllables\/piercing. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Only poems, written quietly in a room of her own, often hand-stitched in small volumes, then hidden in a drawer, revealed her true self. She did not live in time but in universals--an acute, sensitive nature reaching out boldly from self-referral to a wider, imagined world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDickinson died without fame; only a few poems were published in her lifetime. Her legacy was later rescued from her desk--an astonishing body of work, much of which has since appeared in piecemeal editions, sometimes with words altered by editors or publishers according to the fashion of the day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow Ralph Franklin, the foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts, has prepared an authoritative one-volume edition of all extant poems by Emily Dickinson--1,789 poems in all, the largest number ever assembled. This reading edition derives from his three-volume work, The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition (1998), which contains approximately 2,500 sources for the poems. In this one-volume edition, Franklin offers a single reading of each poem--usually the latest version of the entire poem--rendered with Dickinson's spelling, punctuation, and capitalization intact. The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition is a milestone in American literary scholarship and an indispensable addition to the personal library of poetry lovers everywhere.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Belknap Press of Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44933797249224,"sku":"BKHC10703962","price":7.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0643\/2034\/0168\/files\/The_Poems_of_Emily_Dickinson.jpg?v=1770234932","url":"https:\/\/theblossomingbookshop.com\/products\/the-poems-of-emily-dickinson-reading-edition-belknap","provider":"The Blossoming Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}