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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.
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- David Peck Todd
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.
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.
3 de fev. de 2009 · Emily Dickinson , Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Mabel Loomis Todd. Publication date. 1891. Publisher. Roberts Brothers. Collection. americana. Book from the collections of. University of Michigan. Language. English. Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Addeddate.
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.
In addition to the impact on her personal life, the relationship also introduced Mabel to the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Partnering with eminent abolitionist, author and literary advocate Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Mabel set about deciphering, editing, and organizing Emily’s poetry.
Todd enlisted the help of Thomas Wentworth Higginson in the selection process, the two making changes in punctuation and some rhymes, and adding titles, attempting to shape Emily Dickinson’s unusual verse forms to the tastes of late 19th-century readers.
