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Title: Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson by Emily Dickinson, Ellen Louise Hart, Martha Nell Smith ISBN: 0963818368 Publisher: Paris Pr Pub. Date: 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: Superb Scholarship
Comment: This collection has historic significance in Dickinson studies not only because it highlights the interesting and complex relationship between Emily Dickinson and Susan Dickinson, her sister-in-law, but also because of the way the letter-poems appear here in print. Hart and Smith took pains to present as best they could in print the original line breaks and other features of Dickinson's manuscripts, and this causes the poems to run down the page in long narrow columns, in many cases. Like Johnson's restoration of the dashes did in 1955, this edition of letter-poems to one correspondent changes the way we "see" a Dickinson poem physically on the page. The form presented here is as equally fascinating as the content of the letter-poems themselves. Superb!
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best manuscript studies of ED ever
Comment: The best thing about this book is that it gives us Dickinson's poems to her best friend, Sue, in the form they actually appear on the page. For most people, seeing the manuscripts of her poems is something that will never happen so Smith and Hart do their best to give us an idea of what Sue would have seen when she opened the envelopes. The review from the reader in the desert southwest has not read this book as it was meant to be read--as another way of reading and seeing. Hart and Smith do not suggest that theirs is the only way to read the letters/poems, they suggest that there's another way to read them that has not been the tradtional way of reading. My graduate students loved this book, as do I, because it offers a fresh perspective. Few Dickinson books in the last 10 years have been truly original and different. Anyone with a true interest in Dickinson, not the passing interest some reviews here suggest, will read this book in conjunction with other Dickinson studies and will achieve her/his own perspective of the poet. Smith and Hart give us some wonderful ideas to ponder, whether or not we agree with them is not the point. The point is that we exercise our intellect and think.
Rating: 5
Summary: So how about an unregularized COMPLETE POEMS? Please?
Comment: OPEN ME CAREFULLY : Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson. 323 pp. Edited by Ellen Louise Hart and Martha Nell Smith. Ashfield, Massachusetts : Paris Press, 1998. ISBN 0-9638183-6-8 (pbk.)
The present book came as a revelation. How much more meaningful and exciting these 'letters' become when, instead of being treated as letters they are treated as poems. The range of effects generated by the simple procedure of respecting ED's autographs is amazing.
Editors Hart and Smith are to be congratulated. But one wonders why it has taken Dickinson scholars so long to start treating her drafts with the respect they deserve? One also wonders just how much poetry may be lurking unrecognized in the various editions of regularized letters we have been given? And finally one wonders when we are going to be given an unregularized Complete Poems? Would anyone, for example, seriously think of destroying William Carlos Williams' lineation and printing his work as straight prose or in conventional stanza form? Of course not. Then why should it be considered acceptable to distort the forms and rhythms of a vastly more important writer?
Dear Ellen Louise Hart and Martha Nell Smith - You've shown us what can be done, have done it extremely well, and we love it! In fact, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts! So how about an unregularized COMPLETE POEMS? Please?
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Title: The Life of Emily Dickinson by Richard Benson Sewall ISBN: 0674530802 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Poems of Emily Dickinson (Belknap) by R.W. Franklin, Emily Dickinson ISBN: 0674676246 Publisher: Belknap Pr Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Master Letters of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson, R. W. Franklin ISBN: 1558491554 Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. Johnson ISBN: 0316184136 Publisher: Little Brown & Co (Pap) Pub. Date: January, 1976 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Emily Dickinson Handbook by Gudrun Grabher, Roland Hagenbuchle, Cristanne Miller ISBN: 1558491694 Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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