Emily Dickinson

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Published Versions Bibliography

Dickinson, Emily. The Poems of Emily Dickinson; Centenary Edition. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1930.
Edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson. Martha Dickinson Bianchi was Emily's niece. She and her secretary, Alfred Leete Hampson edited Emily's poems in an attempt to make them more readable. For more information on Martha Dickinson Bianchi, please visit her biography page on the Emily Dickinson Museum website.

Dickinson, Emily. Letter from Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson Archive.

Dickinson, Emily. Letter to Susan Dickinson. Emily Dickinson Archive.
The Centenary Edition feature a different version of poem 11 than the one found in Fascicle 16. We had to locate the origianl manuscript written by Emily Dickinson in a letter to her sister-in-law, Susan Dickinson. We found the first page of the manuscript image on the Emily Dickinson Archive website (linked in this entry). We emailed the editor of the website, who then sent us the missing image of the second page.

Dickinson, Emily. Atlantic Monthly. February 1929.
This is an American magazine that published a version of Emily Dickinson's fascicle 16: poem 2 in the February issue in 1929.

Dickinson, Emily. Bolts of Melody: New Poems of Emily Dickinson. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1945.
Edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Millicent Todd Bingham. Mabel Loomis Todd was a good friend of Emily and took up publishing her poems in this edition, but did not live to see it completed. Her daughter, Millicent Todd Bingham, finished the work on her mother's behalf. For more information on Mabel Loomis Todd, please visit her biography page on the Emily Dickinson Museum website.

Dickinson, Emily. Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's Poems. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1961.
Edited by Thomas H. Johnson. As shown in our dash analysis graphs, this edition is the closest representation of Emily's original manuscripts. This edition is the most accurate because literary scholar Thomas H. Johnson returned to Emily's manuscripts, rather than other publisher's editions, to transcribe her peoms as closely as possible before publishing them in print. He studied her handwriting in detail, which allowed for great accuracy.

Dickinson, Emily. Further Poems of Emily Dickinson. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1929.
Edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson. Martha Dickinson Bianchi was Emily's niece. After her mother Susan and her aunt Lavinia's deaths, Martha inherited what remained in her family of Emily's manuscripts. Along with her secretary Alfred Leete Hampson, she edited her aunt's poems to make them easier to read, as other editors had. For more information on Martha Dickinson Bianchi, please visit her biography page on the Emily Dickinson Museum website

Dickinson, Emily. Poems, Third Series. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1896.
Edited by Mabel Loomis Todd.

Dickinson, Emily. Poems, Second Series. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891.
Edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson.

Dickinson, Emily. Poems. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890.
Edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson. Thomas Wentworth Higginson was one of Emily's close friends and mentor. He co-edited this collection of her poems with Mabel Loomis Todd (see Bolts of Melody entry) which was published in 1890, just fours years after Emily's death. The editors changed punctuation and word choices in an attempt to make the poems more readable. For more information on Thomas Wentworth Higginson, please visit his biography page on the Emily Dickinson Museum website.

Dickinson, Emily. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1960.
Edited by Thomas H Johnson. Largely unavailable before this publication, Johnson creates a collection that brings together a large majority of Dickinson's work. This publication contains the most comprehensive collection of Dickinson's poems to date.

Vendler, Helen. Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
In this collection, literary critic and professor Helen Vendler analyzes selected Dickinson poems and provides commentary. According to the dash analysis graph for fascicle 6, Vendler chose to analyze the versions that closely represented Dickinson's original manuscripts.

Manuscript Bibliography

Dickinson, Emily. The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981.
Ralph W. Franklin reassembled Emily's fascicle manuscripts in this facsimile edition. Our manuscript images for Fascicle 16 on the site are originally from this source.

Emily Dickinson Archive
The Emily Dickinson Archive holds a store of images of Emily Dickinson's original manuscripts and letters. Our group used this site to access the letters that Dickinson wrote that contained poem 11 from fascicle 16 and poems 11, 12, and 13 from fascicle 6.

Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Poems: Packet III, Fascicle 6. Includes 17 poems, written in ink, ca. 1859. Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Our manuscript images for Fascicle 6 on the site are originally from this source.

Informative Sources

Wagner-Martin, Linda. Emily Dickinson: A Literary Life. 2013: Springer, n.d. Google Books. Web.
In this biographical study, Linda Wagner-Martin explores Emily Dickinson's growth as a poet, and as a person. Our site uses information from this work to explain the basic make-up of Dickinson's fascicles.