Dickinson Emily. The complete Poems

2nd printing – Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1960 – 770 p.Though generally overlooked during her lifetime, Emily Dickinson’s poetry has achieved acclaim due to her experiments in prosody, her tragic vision and the range of her emotional and intellectual explorations. Here is the real Emily Dickinson – the only comprehensive and reliably authoritative trade editions of the poet's work. The text for thIs editlon of The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson reploduces solely and completely that of the 1955 vanorum edItIOn, but itendcd as a reading text, it selects but one form of each poem. Inevitably therefore one is forced to make some editorial decIsions about a text which never was prepaled by the author as copy for the printer. Rare instances exist, notably in the poem "Blazing in gold", where no text can be called "final." That poem describes a sunset which in one version stoops as low as "the kitchen window"; in another, as low as an "oriel window"; in a third, as low as lithe Otter's Window." These copies were made over a period of five years, from 1861 to 1866, and one text is apparently as "final" as another.
The reader may make the choice.Poems.Previous Collections.Index of FIrst Lines.(OCR with errors)