
PARIS PRESS hopes that this collection of Emily Dickinson’s letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson helps to enhance and perhaps change your understanding of Emily Dickinson’s life as well as her work. Index of Names and Subjects PUBLISHER’S NOTE Late Middle Writings, mid-1860s to mid-1870s CONTENTSĮarly Middle Writings, mid-1850s to mid-1860s Hart, Ellen Louise.ĥ4321 Open Me Carefully is dedicated to the memory of Martha Dickinson Bianchi, Mary Hampson, and to the love of Susan and Emily Dickinson. Women poets, American-19thĬentury-Correspondence. Includes bibliographical references and index.Ĭorrespondence. Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson / edited by Open me carefully : Emily Dickinson’s intimate Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
President and Fellows of Harvard College. Johnson.Ĭambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. The publishers and trustees of Amherst College from The MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,Ĭopyright © 1958, 1986 by the President and Fellows Permission of the publishers from The Letters of Emilyĭickinson, edited by Thomas H. Manuscripts and letters of Susan Huntington Gilbert Copyright © The PresidentĪnd Fellows of Harvard College. Quotations from the manuscripts and letters of Emilyĭickinson are used by permission of The Houghton Manufactured in the United States of America Originally published by Paris Press in 1998įirst Wesleyan University Press edition 2019 © 1998 Ellen Louise Hart and Martha Nell Smith Most important, unlike previous editors who altered line breaks to fit their sense of what is poetry or prose, Hart and Smith offer faithful reproductions of the letters’ genre-defying form as the words unravel spectacularly down the original page.” -Renee Tursi, The New York Times Book Review Read more Gone is Emily as lonely spinster here is Dickinson in her own words, passionate and fully alive. For the millions of readers who love Emily Dickinson’s poetry, Open Me Carefully brings new light to the meaning of the poet’s life and work.

Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson’s life and work, overcoming a century of censorship and misinterpretation. The 19th–century American poet’s uncensored and breathtaking letters, poems, and letter-poems to her sister-in-law and childhood friend.įor the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson’s thirty-six year correspondence with her childhood friend, neighbor, and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume.
