AUTHOR Rosenbaum, S. P. (Stanford Patrick), 1929-
TITLE A concordance to the poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by S. P.
Rosenbaum.
PUBLISHER Ithaca, N.Y., Cornell University Press [1964]
DESCRIPT xxii, 899 p. 25 cm.
SERIES The Cornell concordances.
SUBJECT Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 --Concordances.
Leyburn Library PS1541.Z49 R6
This remarkable book was a product of the early use of computers in the
Humanities, and the concordance industry has been revolutionized in the
last 30 years as computer power has been democratized. Consider what the
computer concordance permits:- It is possible to count the
occurrances of words --to learn that 'I' occurs 1,682 times in
Dickinson's poems, 'heaven' 143 times, 'death' 141 times,'God' and 'time'
130 times... and so on.
- Analysis of Dickinson's complete poetic vocabulary: each word appears in
its context (the line in which it appears is
printed), along with the first line of the poem and the number of the
poem (there are 1,775 and nearly all are in order by approximate date,
1850-1886)
Access to this concordance changed Dickinson scholarship by permitting a
whole new range of questions to be asked.