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“There is one thing to be grateful for – that one is one’s self and not somebody else”

• The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Massachusetts, 1998]; vii, 534, [vi], 535-1118, [vi, 1119-1654; 3 vols grey paper over beige cloth
• Emily Dickinson lived and died without fame: she saw only a few poems published with her great legacy posthumously rescued from her desk drawer
• Contains 1,789 poems, assembled by Ralph Franklin, the foremost scholar of Dickinson’s manuscripts
• The poems, arranged chronologically, based on new dating, are drawn from a range of archives. The text of each manuscript is rendered individually, using Dickinson’s spelling, capitalisation and punctuation.
• Comprehensive, exhaustive and meticulously scholarly, this account is a reconstruction of a remarkable poetic life.
• ISBN: 0-674-67622-X / 067467622X