I dwell in Possibility –A fairer House than Prose –More numerous of Windows –Superior – for Doors –Of Chambers as the Cedars –Impregnable of eye –And for an everlasting RoofThe Gambrels of the Sky –Of Visitors – the fairest –For Occupation – This –The spreading wide my narrow HandsTo gather Paradise –
J657, F466
Emily Dickinson
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- January 3, 2022
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- What Sparks Poetry
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THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON: READING EDITION, edited by Ralph W. Franklin, Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Copyright 0 1998, 1999 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright 1951, 1955 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright renewed 1979, 1983 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Copyright 1914, 1918, 1919, 1924, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1935, 1937, 1942 by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. Copyright 1952, Permission received from Harvard: 7 October, 2021
Emily Dickinson was American lyric poet who lived in seclusion and commanded a singular brilliance of style and integrity of vision. With Walt Whitman, Dickinson is widely considered to be one of the two leading 19th-century American poets.
R. W. Franklin was Director of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University. He received the Emily Dickinson International Society’s Award for Outstanding Contribution.
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"This is now the definitive text of Dickinson, a poet one can open at random and find something exhilarating."
—The Guardian
"Mr. Franklin is the recognized authority on Emily Dickinson’s poetry and gives us 1,789 poems, the largest and most accurate collection of her verse… For all those who love Emily Dickinson’s unique verse this is a treasure trove from which to choose. This is a publishing coup of the first order."
—Contemporary Review
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