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Reading Edition
Emily Dickinson died without fame; but she left behind an astonishing body of work, much of which has since appeared in piecemeal editions, sometimes with words altered by editors or publishers according to the fashion of the day. Now Ralph Franklin, the foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts, has prepared an authoritative one-volume edition of all extant poems by Emily Dickinson--1,789 poems in all, the largest number ever assembled--rendered with Dickinson's spelling, punctuation, and capitalization intact.
In this first substantial study of Emily Dickinson's devotion to flowers and gardening, Farr seeks to join both poet and gardener in one creative personality. She casts new light on Dickinson's temperament, her aesthetic sensibility, and her vision of the relationship between art and nature, revealing that the gardener's intimate understanding of horticulture helped shape the poet's choice of metaphors for every experience. A chapter by Louise Carter hypothesizes Dickinson's methods of gardening, explaining how one might grow her flowers today.
Revised Edition
This new edition affords readers the pleasure of John Keats' "trifles" as well as the surprise of his most famous ideas emerging unpredictably. This selection lends great perspective to an epistolary portrait of the poet and recreates the spontaneity withwhich these letters were originally written.