Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them

This landmark edition gathers Emily Dickinson’s poems in the form and sequence in which she preserved them, drawing directly on her manuscript fascicles, sets, and unbound sheets rather than later editorial reorganizations.

Edited and annotated by Cristanne Miller, it uniquely records Dickinson’s alternate word choices and variants, allowing readers to see her process of composition and revision while offering unobtrusive notes that clarify allusions, historical context, and textual decisions.

The volume reshapes how readers encounter Dickinson by following her own methods of copying and grouping poems, and has been recognized as a major scholarly contribution to Dickinson studies, including receiving the MLA Scholarly Edition Prize.