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In preparing Emily's poetry for publication, which was also marred by family controversies, "she and co-editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson altered words, changed Dickinson’s punctuation, capitalization and syntax to make her poetry closer to the conventions of 19th century verse.
Mabel Todd's Amherst period (1881-1917) was most significant for her connection with the Dickinson family and her publication, with Thomas Wentworth Higginson, of Emily Dickinson's poems.
8 de dez. de 2016 · Despite oddities of punctuation, diction, rhyme, and rhythm, her cumulative achievement surprised Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, her first editors. No one, not even her sister Lavinia, had foreseen such a large and powerful body of work.
When Mabel Loomis Todd ceased her work on Dickinson’s poems, a period of quiet ensued in the publication story. Lavinia Dickinson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and Susan Dickinson all died, and Martha Dickinson Bianchi began to assume a larger role in shaping her aunt’s legacy.
After Dickinson’s death, Higginson assisted Mabel Loomis Todd in editing her poems, lending his considerable literary influence to the eventual publication by Roberts Brothers, Boston, of a first series in 1890 and a second the following year.
All those enlisted for this first stage of introducing a remarkable poet—Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson—quickly identified the letters she had written to family and friends as too closely identified with the poems to be disregarded.
His reputation has largely been based on his relationship with and co-editing (with Mabel Loomis Todd) of the poet Emily Dickinson as well as on his antislavery activism and command of the First South Carolina Volunteers (later the 33rd US Colored Infantry Regiment), the first military unit composed of freed slaves during the Civil War.
