Editing Emily Dickinson (section)

=== Contemporary ===
[[File:Emilyrepublican.jpg|thumb|right|"Safe in their Alabaster Chambers&nbsp;–," titled "The Sleeping", as it was published in the ''Springfield Republican'' in 1862.]]
A few of Dickinson's poems appeared in [[Samuel Bowles (journalist)|Samuel Bowles']] ''Springfield Republican'' between 1858 and 1868. They were published anonymously and heavily edited, with conventionalized punctuation and formal titles.<ref>McNeil (1986), 33.</ref> The first poem, "Nobody knows this little rose", may have been published without Dickinson's permission.<ref>Habegger (2001), 389.</ref> The ''Republican'' also published "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass" as "The Snake", "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers&nbsp;–" as "The Sleeping", and "Blazing in the Gold and quenching in Purple" as "Sunset".<ref name="For32" /><ref name="Wolff245">Wolff (1986), 245.</ref> The poem "[[I taste a liquor never brewed]]&nbsp;–" is an example of the edited versions; the last two lines in the first stanza were completely rewritten.<ref name="For32" />

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'''Original wording'''<br />
I taste a liquor never brewed&nbsp;–<br />
From Tankards scooped in Pearl&nbsp;–<br />
''Not all the Frankfort Berries''<br />
''Yield such an Alcohol!''
|
'''''Republican'' version'''<br />
I taste a liquor never brewed&nbsp;–<br />
From Tankards scooped in Pearl&nbsp;–<br />
''Not Frankfort Berries yield the sense''<br />
''Such a delirious whirl!''
|
|}

In 1864, several poems were altered and published in ''Drum Beat'', to raise funds for medical care for Union soldiers in the [[American Civil War|war]].<ref>Habegger (2001), 402–403.</ref> Another appeared in April 1864 in the ''Brooklyn Daily Union''.<ref>Habegger (2001), 403.</ref>

In the 1870s, [[Thomas Wentworth Higginson|Higginson]] showed Dickinson's poems to [[Helen Hunt Jackson]], who had coincidentally been at the academy with Dickinson when they were girls.<ref name="Sewall581">Sewall (1974), 580–583.</ref> Jackson was deeply involved in the publishing world, and managed to convince Dickinson to publish her poem "[[Success is Counted Sweetest|Success is counted sweetest]]" anonymously in a volume called ''[[A Masque of Poets]]''.<ref name="Sewall581" /> The poem, however, was altered to agree with contemporary taste. It was the last poem published during Dickinson's lifetime.