oom. Lavinia wanted to get all of her sister's poems published. She took them to a family friend, Mrs. Mabel Loomis Todd, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson to get the poems published. Since her poems were untitled, they used the first couple of words or the first line to title the poem. They published one hundred fifteen of her poems in eighteen hundred ninety. Later they published a second group in eighteen hundred ninety-one, which was one hundred sixty- six poems. Then in eighteen hundred ninety-six, Mrs. Todd edited a third series. These two revised all of Emily's poems; they smoothed the rhymes and meter. When Dickinson's niece, Martha Dickinson Bianchi, started to publish the poems, she didn't edit the poems as much. [ 12. Notable Poets, volume one, page 288] Emily Elizabeth Dickinson lived fifty-six years and half those years she lived in seclusion. She saw the world in a different view, and she showed it in her poetry. Emily has been ranked with the America's finest. ...
