The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Including Variant Readings Critically Compared with All Known Manuscripts-3 Volumes
by: Dickinson, Emily, Editor: Johnson, Thomas H.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 7th pr., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three uniform volumes in original red slipcase, 1266 pages. Gray cloth covers with black and gilt stamping to titles on spines. Interest in Emily Dickinson has grown throughout the years until, now, in this three-volume edition Thomas Johnson presents the entire body of poems she is known to have written, 1775 in all. Here are the familiar "I never saw a Moor" and "Because I could not stop for Death," along with other less well-known poems, including forty-three never before published. Casual notes to friends and relatives which frequently accompany scraps of verse help to reveal the poet's enigmatic character. After keen analysis of the manuscripts, Johnson has arranged the poems in what is believed to be their chronological order, with variations and rejected versions of each poem following .No dust jackets. Ink notations to about 15 pages in the 3 volumes, Otherwise clean and tight.

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