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Hamnet

by Maggie O'Farrell (Goodreads Author)

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The Poems of Emily Dickinson

by Emily Dickinson

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Coruxa said: " I'm still reading all of her poems, but I wanted to write some comments on this edition. First off, the edition I own is the one edited by Franklin. He, unlike Johnson, respected her punctuation style and also includes more poems. This is only the re I'm still reading all of her poems, but I wanted to write some comments on this edition. First off, the edition I own is the one edited by Franklin. He, unlike Johnson, respected her punctuation style and also includes more poems. This is only the reading edition, not the variorum (which is a three volume with all the changes she made to the poems and it's full of annotations). This single volume does not have notes at all, and only has one version of each poem (it's also way cheaper than de variorum).

I noticed something thanks to this edition which I want to share: If you're a fan of Emily Dickinson's poems you may know that "her poetry is full of em dashes". Well maybe you own a copy of her poems without the em dashes and completely edited (that's awful tbh so be careful, Johnson still changed some stuff, and even nowadays we have plenty of modern editions which copy the poems of people who, before Johnson, edited her poems to a "more conventional style", tho Johnson still edited it, but kept the punctuation). But what's more interesting is that the em dashes were not necessarily "her style". She only left handwritten manuscripts with "marks" of different length, not typeset em dashes. So what Franklin says is that hyphens may correspond better to what she wrote, contrary to what we've been told all this time. She definitely had a "dashed" style and wrote plenty of marks in her poems (even vertical marks) of different lengths, but that doesn't necessarily mean that she wrote em dashes. You can check her manuscripts online and see for yourself. She also wrote letters, in fact she started with letters before the poems, so I recommend reading her letters as well. Why people still use Johnson's edition? Because it was the first time someone published her poems as she wrote them, but Franklin is the gold standard because he improved it even more, doing a better research of her manuscripts and truly preserving her unique style.

Things I found adorable about her: she loved Antony and Cleopatra (the Shakespeare play) but identified with Othello at the end of her life. Her fav book was Wilkie Collins' The woman in white (I maybe made this up, but I like to believe that's true), maybe that's why she decided to only dress in white. She had a beautiful garden. She invented free verse before it ever existed.

She's the greatest poet of all time. ...more "

Apr 28, 2026 09:16PM · see review

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Poetic Meter and Poetic Form

by Paul Fussell

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Coruxa said: " Standard reference book, thought old. Easy to find free in pdf. Looking forward to reading Turco's Book of poetic forms. This may be a good starting point. ...more "

Apr 13, 2026 06:06AM · see review

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“One can’t have everything in this world; be content with the greatest of joys: health.”
― Frédéric Chopin, Chopin's Letters

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“The Soul selects her own Society — Then — shuts the Door — To her divine Majority — Present no more —”
― Emily Dickinson

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“The Martyr Poets

The Martyr Poets — did not tell —
But wrought their Pang in syllable —
That when their mortal name be numb —
Their mortal fate — encourage Some —

The Martyr Painters — never spoke —
Bequeathing — rather — to their Work
That when their conscious fingers cease —
Some seek in Art — the Art of Peace —”
― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

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“Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality. There are mass emotions which heal the wound; but they destroy the privilege. In them our separate selves are pooled and we sink back into sub-individuality. But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes

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