9780674982970-0674982975-The Letters of Emily Dickinson

The Letters of Emily Dickinson

ISBN-13: 9780674982970
ISBN-10: 0674982975
Edition: Fifthe printing
Author: Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller, Domhnall Mitchell
Publication date: 2024
Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover 976 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780674982970
ISBN-10: 0674982975
Edition: Fifthe printing
Author: Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller, Domhnall Mitchell
Publication date: 2024
Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
Format: Hardcover 976 pages

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The Letters of Emily Dickinson (ISBN-13: 9780674982970 and ISBN-10: 0674982975), written by authors Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller, Domhnall Mitchell, was published by Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press in 2024. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent The Letters of Emily Dickinson (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $12.84.

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The definitive edition of Emily Dickinson's correspondence, expanded and revised for the first time in over sixty years.

Emily Dickinson was a letter writer before she was a poet. And it was through letters that she shared prose reflections-alternately humorous, provocative, affectionate, and philosophical-with her extensive community. While her letters often contain poems, and some letters consist entirely of a single poem, they also constitute a rich genre all their own. Through her correspondence, Dickinson appears in her many facets as a reader, writer, and thinker; social commentator and comedian; friend, neighbor, sister, and daughter.

The Letters of Emily Dickinson is the first collected edition of the poet's correspondence since 1958. It presents all 1,304 of her extant letters, along with the small number available from her correspondents. Almost 300 are previously uncollected, including letters published after 1958, letters more recently discovered in manuscript, and more than 200 "letter-poems" that Dickinson sent to correspondents without accompanying prose. This edition also redates much of her correspondence, relying on records of Amherst weather patterns, historical events, and details about flora and fauna to locate the letters more precisely in time. Finally, updated annotations place Dickinson's writing more firmly in relation to national and international events, as well as the rhythms of daily life in her hometown. What emerges is not the reclusive Dickinson of legend but a poet firmly embedded in the political and literary currents of her time.

Dickinson's letters shed light on the soaring and capacious mind of a great American poet and her vast world of relationships. This edition presents her correspondence anew, in all its complexity and brilliance.

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