Explication

Web Paper Project

Straight Paper

Super Paper (1828 dictionary, concordance)

Determining the text of the poem

Fascicles, in general

Packet 29, in particular

H 157 (Houghton Library Dickinson Manuscript)

View Manuscript page 537

View Manuscript page 538

View H 157 Manuscript page 555

Tracing the fragments

Comparing the Fragments

Placement of First stanza

Franklin's revision, HLB

H 155 Verso Manuscript

Revision Argument Conclusion

Placement of Second stanza

Publishing History

"A Pit"

H157: 1st stanza

H157: 2nd stanza