These were the sixty little "volumes," as LaVInia called them, "tied together with twine," that constitute the packets. On going through her sIster's effects, Lavinia discovered a small box containing about 900 poems. Cared for by a servant, Emily and her sister Lavinia had been living together In the Amherst house built by their grandfather DickInson, alone after their mother's death in 1882. THE PRESENT TEXTĪT the time of her death in 1886, Emily Dickinson left in manuscript a body of verse far more extensive than anyone imagined. The nUlllber of packet poems for the years 1858-1865 at present is estimated as follows: 193 185ĭinary insight she repeatedly gives relationship to the Ideas and experience which exist in time but never are a part of it. in want of other eVldence, It is based upon a ~tudy of the characteristic changes of the handwriting, analyzed fully in the introduction to The Poefll~ of Emlly Dtckmson (3 vols., J955). With paradoxes of extrnor>to The assigning of packets to a given year must always remain tentatIve, for. Thereafter throughout her life Emily Dickinson continued to write poetry, but never again with the urgency she experienced in the early 1860'S, when she fully developed her "flood subjects" on the themes of living and dying. RIGHT, ]914, 19 1 8, BY MARTHA DICKINSONĬOPYRIGHT, 195:3, BY ALFRED LEETE HAMPSON 1957, I9~8, 1900, BY MARY I.
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