American Literature / Unit 10 AML 0923 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Dickinson's Editors and the Restored Texts
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The idea
Early editors gave the poems titles, regularized the dashes, smoothed the slant rhymes and sometimes changed words, which is how the first readers met her. Twentieth-century scholarship went back to the manuscripts, and the poems now read as she left them, numbered rather than titled.
In practice
Smoothed first, restored later.
Where people slip
Anthology texts still vary between the versions.
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