About this Hypertext
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Purpose / Format of the Archive
The Emily Dickinson and the Youth's Companion archive is designed to enable students and researchers to see the various historical representations of this particular segment of Dickinson's work, moving beyond the spatial and economic limitations of codex representation. Using this hypertext, particularly in its Frames configuration, readers can now examine diplomatic transcriptions of Dickinson's holograph texts simultaneously alongside the printed /circulated material. Via an exhaustive hypertextual collation of all witness documents, users can not only highlight the textual differences in these two foregrounded versions, but in all printed editions of the poems presently known.
The Frames Version Viewer
This section is designed to be the primary tool available for use with the archive. The viewer is divided into three frames, each of which contains a different component of the hypertext.
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of Poems as Published in The Youth's Companion
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Diplomatic
Renderings of Dickinson Holographs (Frame B)
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Collation of All Witness Documents (Frame C) Title. Ready. ] Ready 1949
Johnson's 1955 and 1960 editions present the work as a 4 line poem, combining ll. 1 & 2, 3 & 4, 5 & 6, and 7 & 8 into single lines, disregarding the slight indentation of ll. 2, 4, 6, and 8. All other variations are catalogued below. Line 3. heart ] Heart 1955, 1960 Line 6. mine, ] mine 1955, 1960 Line 8. Necessity. ] necessity 1960 |
Navigating the Hypertext
Under most poems / representations in the archive, a navigation bar appears, such as the one reproduced below. This facilitates travel between different sections of the archive.
| Youth's Companion Text | Diplomatic Renderings | Collations | Textual History |
Accessing Collations
To the right of each poem in the Archive are line numbers. Linked line numbers (See Fig. 1 above) indicate that the corresponding line of text includes a variant. Clicking on the linked line number will bring the textual variant into view in the Collation frame (Frame C).
Accessing Diplomatic Renderings
Clicking on the Diplomatic Renderings button on the navigation bar (see Fig. 2 above) will bring a replication of Dickinson's holograph text into the Diplomatic Renderings frame (Frame B).