Max - can I blog this post?, With suitable acknowledgement, of course.
Andrew
On 14 May 2014 07:35, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> the Emily Dickinson Archive recently developed at Harvard will make
> available digitized copies of the manuscripts of all Dickinson's poems. The
> manuscripts are essential for interpreting the work, because they contain
> many peculiarities--punctuation, spacing, capitalization--that inflect the
> meaning of the poems, of which only a few, badly mangled, were published
> during Dickinson's lifetime. Nearly every high school student comes across
> a poem by Dickinson at one time or other. Now teachers can assign a
> particular poem in its manuscript and printed versions (they often differ
> considerably) and stimulate their students to develop closer, deeper
> readings.
>
>
> http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/may/22/world-digital-library-coming-true/
>
> This old teacher wishes he could have his time over again.
>
> Max in Melbourne
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Andrew
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