Measures of Possibility: Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts

by Domhnall Mitchell

A study of the poet's distinctive compositional practices; Debates about editorial proprieties have been at the center of Emily Dickinson scholarship since the 1981 publication of the two-volume Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson, edited by Ralph W. Franklin. Many critics have since investigated the possibility that autograph poems might have primacy over their printed versions, and it has been suggested that to read Dickinson in any standard typographic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558494626
• ISBN13: 9781558494626
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher