Dec 4, 2008
Seventy-four years after Emily Dickinson’s death, all of her existing poems were gathered into the single volume The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, a text that represents one woman’s rebellion against her patriarchal society’s institutions and literary conventions. After the poet’s death on May 15, 1886, her sister Lavinia began the customary burning of the deceased’s papers but stopped when she discovered the locked wooden box that contained the forty handmade volumes of Dickinson’s poems, fifteen sets of unbound volumes, and hundreds of...
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