[New-Poetry] Il Miglior Fabbro

[jforjames at aol.com]

The early Dickinson editions sold well. Couldn't those early editions be compared to inferior translations
of a good poet? If there is enough 'good' showing through in those earlier treatments/editions (however
horrifying they seem in retrospect), you get?the critical?attention needed so that?better later treatments 
of work are warranted.
Finnegan

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From: Robin Hamilton <robin.hamilton2 at btinternet.com>
To: new-poetry at wiz.cath.vt.edu
Sent: Fri, 23 May 2008 1:29 pm
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Il Miglior Fabbro




It doesn't make much sense to talk about Emily Dickinson's poetry before it was published properly as she intended in 1955.

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??? ??? Had the?early Moderns absorbed much Dickinson? And the form
??? ??? they got in her in was normalized from the form in which we know her work.
??? ??? What did Pound know or think of Dickinson's poetry? I have the impression
??? ??? her poetry?was known as a kind of a curiosity or novelty at first...not?so
??? ??? influential on other poets?at the outset. 

??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? Finnegan

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How did the poets read Wyatt before the Egerton MS rather than Tottel became the Standard about 1900?.

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Same difference -- Emily Dickinson's poetry only authentically appeared after 1955 -- in the same way that Wyatt's only properly emerged after 1900 and Donne was properly edited for the first time by Grierson in 1912.

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Let's get real, people -- the world is full of crap editions, but you can sometimes specify what matters.

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Sometimes dates matter, and any brouhaha around Emily Dickinson turns on the year 1955 -- other than that, it's fluff and cultural history.

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Doesn't change the fact that Emily Dickinson, rather than Whitman, is the major poet of 19thC America

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R.




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