Her legacy was later rescued from her desk-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. She did not live in time but in universals-an acute, sensitive nature reaching out boldly from self-referral to a wider, imagined world.ĭickinson died without fame only a few poems were published in her lifetime. Only poems, written quietly in a room of her own, often hand-stitched in small volumes, then hidden in a drawer, revealed her true self. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Visit EDA »Įmily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. The Emily Dickinson Archive makes manuscripts of Dickinson’s poetry, along with transcriptions and annotations from scholarly editions, available in open access-inspiring new scholarship and discourse on this literary icon.
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