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Bolts of melody : new poems of Emily Dickinson / edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Millicent Todd Bingham.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PS1541 .A137 1955 Capps Dickinson copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886.
- Dickinson, Emily.
- Penn Provenance:
- Capps, Jack L. (donor) (Capps Dickinson Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxix, 352 pages : facsimiles ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- [Eighth print.].
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; London : Harper & Brothers Publishers, [1955]
- Contents:
- Guide to arrangement of poems
- The far theatricals of day
- The round year
- My pageantry
- Our little kinsmen
- Once a child
- The mob within the heart
- Italic faces
- The infinite aurora
- The white exploit
- Vital light
- That campaign inscrutable
- An ablative estate
- Poems incomplete or unfinished
- Fragments
- Poems personal and occasional
- If I should cease to bring a rose.
- Notes:
- Title page is printed in all black.
- "E-E" (May 1955 printing) -- T.p. verso.
- Introduction (p. v-vi) by Mark Van Doren.
- The following textual variants between the third and fourth printings are present: p. 5, the lines "Love first and last of all things made/Of which our living world is but the shade" has been changed to "Love is the fellow of the resurrection/Scooping up the dust and chanting 'Live!'; on p. 125 Poem 232 has been omitted and on p. 317 Poem 627 has been omitted.--Myerson.
- "Set in Linotype Baskerville. Format by A. W. Rushmore."--Colophon.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Capps Dickinson Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2006 by Brigadier General Jack L. Capps.
- Capps Dickinson Collection copy has ms. annotation.
- Cited in:
- Myerson, Joel : Emily Dickinson a descriptive bibliography, A8.1.h
- OCLC:
- 978113005
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