The Poems of Emily Dickinson by Thomas H. Johnson, published in 1955, is a complete, and mostly unaltered, collection of her poetry. The poem collection includes 10 of her nearly 1,800 poems, and one letter. It was published in 1890 by personal acquaintances Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd, though both heavily edited the content.
About Emily Dickinson in brief
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. She was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, into a prominent family. Dickinson never married, and most friendships between her and others depended entirely upon correspondence. Her poems were unique to her era. They contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation. Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends, and also explore aesthetics, society, nature and spirituality. The Poems of Emily Dickinson by Thomas H. Johnson, published in 1955, is a complete, and mostly unaltered, collection of her poetry. The poem collection includes 10 of her nearly 1,800 poems, and one letter. It was published in 1890 by personal acquaintances Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd, though both heavily edited the content. The poems published then were usually edited significantly to fit conventional poetic rules. The collection of poems became available for the first time in 1955 when scholar Thomas Johnson published The Po poems ofEmily Dickinson, published by Simon & Schuster, was a complete collection of Dickinson’s poems. It includes 11 dedications to her sister-in-law Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson, though all the dedications were obliterated, presumably by Todd. The poet died in 1886, and was buried at the family’s homestead in the town’s Main Street. Her father, Edward Dickinson, built the Homestead, a large mansion, in 1813, that became the focus of Dickinson family life for the better part of a century.
In a letter to a confidante, Emily wrote she was always a child, but if anything befell me, “I liked him better than none” Her father wanted his children well-educated and he followed their progress even while away on business. When Emily was seven, he wrote home, reminding his children to keep school, and learn, so as to tell me, how many new things you have learned, when I come home, how much I love you. Emily consistently described her mother in a warm manner, but her correspondence suggests that her mother was regularly cold andoof. Her brother Austin described this large new home as the’mansion over which he and Emily presided’ In 1840, Emily and her sister Lavinia started together at AmherSt Academy, a former boys’ school that had opened two years earlier to female students. At the same time, her father purchased a house on North Pleasant Street, which he later described as the overlooked burial ground, while their parents were absent by the time of Emily’s burial. The family lived in the house until Emily’s death in 1886. The funeral was held on September 7, 1840, and Emily was described as ‘a very good child & but little trouble’ by her sister. The burial ground was overlooked by the family, while Emily’s brother Austin later described him as ‘the lord and lady of the house’
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