Search

Search Works

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Browse for Manuscript Images by first line, date, recipient, or edition.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Browse alphabetically through more than 9,000 words in Dickinson’s poetry, as defined in the Emily Dickinson Lexicon, based in part on her dictionary, Webster's 1844 American Dictionary of the English Language.

Houghton Library - p. 3, J1433, Fr1459

About Image
Credits
Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. How brittle are the piers... (1st line of a poem) A.MS.; [n.p.,n.d.] 1s.(2p.) MS Am 1118.10 (3). Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Houghton Library - p. 3, J1433, Fr1459
Publication History
Letters (1894), 328, in the letter to Higginson (C), as two quatrains; also LL (1924), 307; and Letters (1931), 310. Poems (1955), 993-94 (A as two quatrains, C principal; without B); CP (1960), 610 (C), as two quatrains. Letters (1958), 611 (C), as two quatrains. The unpublished copy to Whitney (B) appeared in Hart, "New Approaches to Editing Emily Dickinson" (1996), 220, in sixteen lines. (J1433). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F1459B).
-History from Franklin Variorum 1998

Emily Dickinson Archive
http://www.edickinson.org
Copyright & Terms of Use:
CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
http://www.edickinson.org/terms
Download Image