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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.
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.
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.
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.
On Emily Dickinson. BY BRENDA WINEAPPLE. During the summer of 1890, Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd were tidying up their edition- the very first edi- tion-of poems by Emily Dickinson and making the decisions for they have been blamed ever after, as if any of us, had we lived over. hundred years ago , might not have , facing ...
