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New Poems of Emily Dickinson.

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From: The Women's Review of Books
Date: 19940101
Author:Hart, Ellen Louise

THIS BOOK CLAIMS TO PRESENT 498 new poems, derived from the 1958 edition of The Letters of Emily Dickinson, reformatted by William H. Shurr, with the help of his graduate student, Anna Dunlap, and his daughter, Emily Grey Shurr. Poems are intermingled with editorial commentary in a collection advertised on the back cover as "a stunning new literary discovery."

Although advance publicity for New Poems noted that the poems were found in published letters, the language of the discovery of rare treasures floated suggestively through Shurr's remarks to reporters and in the ...

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