- Publisher’s Note
- Introduction
- I. 1842–1846: “…the Hens lay finely…”
- II. 1847–1848: “I am really at Mt Holyoke…”
- III. 1849–1850: “Amherst is alive with fun this winter…”
- IV. 1851–1854: “…we do not have much poetry, father having made up his mind
that its pretty much all real life.” - V. 1855–1857: “To live, and die, and mount again in triumphant body…
is no schoolboy’s theme!” - VI. 1858–1861: “Much has occurred…so much that I stagger as I write,
in its sharp remembrance.” - VII. 1862–1865: “Perhaps you smile at me. I could not stop for that—
My Business is Circumference.” - VIII. 1866–1869: “A Letter always feels to me like immortality because it is
the mind alone without corporeal friend.” - IX. 1870–1874: “I find ecstasy in living the mere sense of living is joy enough.”
- X. 1875–1879: “Nature is a Haunted House but Art—
a House that tries to be haunted.” - XI. 1880–1883: “I hesitate which word to take, as I can take but few and
each must be the chiefest…” - XII. 1884–1886: “…a Letter is a joy of Earth it is denied the Gods.”
- Appendix: Biographical Sketches of Recipients of Letters and of Persons Mentioned in Them
- Index
Emily Dickinson
Selected Letters
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Publication Date: 03/15/1986
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