{"id":3714,"date":"2018-12-10T16:53:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-10T16:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/?p=3714"},"modified":"2018-12-12T21:08:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T21:08:43","slug":"happy-birthday-emily-dickinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/2018\/12\/10\/happy-birthday-emily-dickinson\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Emily Dickinson!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Born on December 10<sup>th<\/sup>, 1830, Emily Dickinson was a prolific and reclusive poet whose writing ranged from descriptive and observational to introspective and theoretical and touched on themes of flowers, death, and religion. Though very few of her works circulated during her life, over 1,800 poems hand-bound into \u201cfascicles\u201d were discovered in her room after her death. These pieces had unique punctuation and were unbound and arranged chronologically for their first publication, with standardized punctuation added to replace the dashes Dickinson frequently used. However, several researchers have worked to reconstruct the original fascicles and republish Dickinson\u2019s poems with the original punctuation. Dickinson had a profound influence on poetry through her work and is considered alongside Walt Whitman as the founder of \u201ca uniquely American poetic voice.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3715 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/12\/DSC05563-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A page from a book of poetry with the annotation &quot;perfect poem&quot; written next to one of the poems.\" width=\"640\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/12\/DSC05563-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/12\/DSC05563-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2018\/12\/DSC05563-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This image come from <em>A Pocket Book of Modern Verse<\/em> in Gwendolyn Brooks\u2019 personal library. Brooks, herself an influential and acclaimed poet, made extensive annotations in most books that she read. This was especially true for works of poetry, in which Brooks would go so far as to rewrite lines in her own and other writers\u2019 poems in the margins. Dickinson, however, seems to have held a special place in her eyes, and her annotations are highly complementary, even going so far as to call <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/56593\/a-bird-came-down-the-walk-359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>A Bird Came Down the Walk<\/em><\/a> a \u201cperfect poem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> \u201cEmily Dickinson,\u201d <em>Poets.org<\/em>, https:\/\/www.poets.org\/poetsorg\/poet\/emily-dickinson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born on December 10th, 1830, Emily Dickinson was a prolific and reclusive poet whose writing ranged from descriptive and observational to introspective and theoretical and touched on themes of flowers, death, and religion. Though very few of her works circulated during her life, over 1,800 poems hand-bound into \u201cfascicles\u201d were discovered in her room after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":3715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[379,297,183,210],"class_list":["post-3714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-emily-dickinson","tag-gwendolyn-brooks","tag-marginalia","tag-poetry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3717,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions\/3717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}