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 - (86a) Two Butterflies went out at Noon -, J533, Fr571

About Image
Credits
Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Poems: Packet XVI, Fascicle 25 (part). Includes 14 poems, written in ink, dated ca. 1862.
Houghton Library - (86a) Two Butterflies went out at Noon -, J533, Fr571
Publication History
Poems (1891), 133, from the fascicle (B), with the alternative adopted. The later version (C) was published in BM (1945), 72, as three quatrains, with the alternatives for lines 7 ("missed her footing") and 10 ("this Biography") adopted; a facsimile of the manuscript was included (xx-xxi) and the text discussed (xxii-xxiii). Johnson, Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (Autumn 1953), 265-66 (B, C unredacted). Poems (1955), 409-11 (B principal, C unredacted; without [A]); CP (1960), 260-61 (B). MB (1981), 567 (B), in facsimile. (J533). Franklin Variorum 1998 (F571B).
-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