Czy Emily Dickinson pisała wiersze?
Did Emily Dickinson Write Poems?

Summary/Abstract: The author proposes a reflection on discovering the poet with regard to his creationor construction. This issue is discussed on the example of Emily Dickinson’s works whichwere published only after her death and were not prepared for print by the author herself.In the light of the latest research on the material dimension of her legacy (starting fromVirginia Jackson’s study Dickinson’s Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading from 2005 to therecently published collection The Gorgeous Nothings. Emily Dickinson’s Envelope Poems),it appears that many of Dickinson’s works were not written in a form that could be recognizedas poetic at first glance. A large part was preserved only in notebooks, loose sheets coveredwith handwriting written in continuo or at odd angles, in a manner adapted to the format ofa given scrap of paper, usually a free fragment of a recycled envelope or a torn-off cornerof a piece of paper used previously for a different purpose. These texts had to be recognizedthen by discoverers as poems, and then copied and edited in a way consistent with whatwas considered lyric poetry in the era. Some of them were then rejected as not falling intothe category of poetry and included in the opus of the American only by later researchers.Others, in the first editions treated as poems with time were excluded by historians ofliterature from this collection. Contrary to the provocative title, the aim of the article isnot to answer the question about the status of the texts left by Dickinson. Instead, the authorreflects on the poetic criteria ascribed to her works by the first and subsequent readers.

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