[Libri] Oct. 18 program and project announcement

[Jane Wald]

I hope this announcement of a program this week and a special book
project will be of interest to Libri list subscribers.

 

Emily Dickinson's Reading: "The Long Foreground"
Thursday, October 18 at 7:30 p.m.
Amherst Woman's Club, 35 Triangle Street 
(corner of Triangle and Main, east of the Homestead) 

 

Emily Dickinson's reading, broad and deep, was vital to her existence.
It offered a circumference within which she dwelled and outside of which
she imagined possibilities. Dickinson scholar Jack Capps will offer his
perspective on "The Long Foreground" that helped to shape Dickinson's
development as a poet. A reception will follow the talk. 

 

Capps retired in 1988 as professor of English at the United States
Military Academy. Author of the pioneering study Emily Dickinson's
Reading (1966), Capps earned his Ph. D. at the University of
Pennsylvania, where he studied with editor Thomas Johnson who produced
the first complete collection of Dickinson's poetry. 

 

Replenishing the Shelves

 

Jack Capps's lecture inaugurates a special project at the Emily
Dickinson Museum, Replenishing the Shelves, to recreate the libraries of
the Homestead and The Evergreens as accurately as possible. The effort
is dedicated to and led by Polly Longsworth, a longtime Dickinson
scholar and the first chair of the Emily Dickinson Museum's Board of
Governors.

 

Through the three decades that Emily Dickinson wrote her poetry, ample,
eclectic libraries-containing those treasures the poet called "The
strongest Friends of the Soul" -stood open to her perusal in the
Homestead and The Evergreens. Today, the shelves of both dwellings are
bare. The project to recreate the family libraries relies upon the
collections as they now exist at Harvard University's Houghton Library,
where several hundred Dickinson family volumes have resided since 1950,
and Brown University, which has housed the remainder of the family
libraries since the early 1990s. 

 

The Emily Dickinson Museum is looking for clean, tight books in good
condition and in the exact editions known to have been in the Dickinson
family libraries. Once acquired, the books will be displayed as they
were when the Dickinson family occupied their homes. Full information
about the project, guidelines for acquisition, and the initial book list
is available at the Museum's website at
www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/books. 

 

I'm happy to answer any questions you might have about this exciting
project.

Jane Wald
Executive Director
Emily Dickinson Museum
280 Main Street
Amherst, MA  01002
413.542.2154
jhwald at emilydickinsonmuseum.org

 

 
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