The poet Emily Dickinson wrote nearly 1,800 poems during her lifetime, but only about a dozen were published in her lifetime, typically with editorial alterations she had not authorized. After her death in 1886, her sister discovered hundreds of poems bound by Dickinson herself into small handmade volumes. Editors standardizing these poems for early posthumous publication regularized her dashes, capitalization, and lineation; later editions, beginning in the mid-20th century, attempted to restore her original conventions.
Based on the passage, which inference is most strongly supported?
- A
Editors of poetry have no influence over how poems are received
- B
Dickinson preferred regularized punctuation over her own
- Ccheck_circle
The textual choices of editors can shape readers' encounters with an author's work in significant ways
- D
Dickinson's published poems during her lifetime represented her preferred conventions
Explanation
Successive editing waves shaping presentation supports A. B, C, D contradict the passage.