Author(s): Judit KÓNYI

Title: EMILY DICKINSON AS A PRIVATE POET

Source: Sz. Simon (ed.): 13th International Conference of J. Selye University. Language and Literacy Section. Conference Proceedings

ISBN: 978-80-8122-412-6

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36007/4126.2022.71

Publisher: J. Selye University, Komárno, Slovakia

PY, pages: 2021, 71-79

Published on-line: 2022

Language: en

Abstract: Emily Dickinson rejected print publishing, however, her preference for the handwritten page as a medium does not mean that she did not intend to share her poems with readers. Her alternatives to print publication appear to be numerous. Her methods of private publishing or sharing her poems with an audience include handmade booklets known as fascicles, unbound sets, poems included in letters, poems or lines of poems embedded in letters, letter-poems, fair copies of poems on individual sheets sent to recipients as gifts, and reading out poems to family members or friends.

Keywords: Emily Dickinson, publishing, alternatives to print publication, private poet, fascicles, unbound sets, letter-poems, gift-poems

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