Talk:List of Emily Dickinson poems

Dates
Is there any information when these poems were penned? Having a chronology is useful but establishing dates to the poem enables you to tie it back the her age at the time and the events of the time. So another column for approx date of the poem would be great. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.145.216.21 (talk) 15:08, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

Size
200K+ is really too much--this needs to be split into at least 10 separate articles. Niteowlneils 01:08, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * Why? Much of the character count is markup for the table of poems.  I don't see how splitting the list helps anything.  Wikisource already has the full collection of poems (though whose text, and of what provenance and copyright status, I don't know).  If this list deserves to stay on Wikipedia, I see no reason to make it more than one article.  -- Rbellin|Talk 06:46, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

What poems were published during her lifetime?
The wikipedia article about her only states that 7 of her poems were published during her life.--User: CookieTimes (talk) 05:53, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Two non-table alternatives
I edited out all the table markup and replaced it with a list format and then a preformatted text version. Compare and discuss here and perhaps we can decide on a version. OBTW, poem 520 was listed twice, so I fixed that. - dcljr (talk) 07:15, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

SEO?
There are 1775 external links to a single website in this article. This is clearly in violation of External links. - Amgine 08:11, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

de[prodded
She is a sufifciently major author that every one of these poems can probably be the subject of an article. DGG (talk)

This article's wrong
There are actually 1789. This is going by a 1950s editor of her poems, and recently there was a new edition with a few more poems that were found plus a re-editing of existing poems. So if you're going to have this article, you would need to update the new poems - but also get the new number for each poem. zafiroblue05 | Talk 03:03, 29 October 2008 (UTC)


 * I nominated this article for deletion a few months ago, and it was kept -- wrongly, I believe. I agree that it's completely outdated and old fashioned, but it also serves no purpose; it offers no academic insight in its current laundry list form.  It really should be deleted once and for all. María ( habla  con migo ) 19:40, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

I don't think it needs to be deleted, but I agree that it needs to be updated. I did find it useful when I was referring to some ED poems in the Franklin edition, but encountering many critical papers that use the Johnson edition. This article does need the Franklin numbers and the additional poems. If I have time later this year, I might add the Franklin numbers. I'm not sure which edition of the poems are on wikisource, but some are missing. I'd assume they're Johnson's transcriptions, but I don't know. Another useful thing to include might be the years in which these poems were written. Neuroflora (talk) 20:26, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Clean up
I've cleaned up this list, turning the jumbled (almost gibberish) text into a sortable table, with individual links to each poem on wikisource. In the process, I have removed two poems from the list. I am not familiar with Emily Dickinson but they stood out and I could find no evidence that they were genuine Dickinson poems. If I am wrong, please put them back into the table. They are "Sunrise Sunset" (no number) and "A Acceptance to thee" (number 5683720). - AdamBMorgan (talk) 19:41, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

Updated with Fr# and fascicles
I've updated the table and its documentation to include Franklin # and fascicle number/structure. I hope eventually to add information on the sets, and also on the pre-1955 publications. If you find something wrong with the table, or would like to contribute more information to it, my preference is that you note the alteration here on the talk page rather than actually making the edit in the table itself. This is not an ownership thing; it's just that in order to handle the huge amount of data, I've put it all into a database which spits out the table body pre-formatted for Wikipedia. So if I make any change to the table, I'll replace the whole thing. This caveat doesn't apply to the rest of the article text around the table... just the table itself. Phil wink (talk) 23:43, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Wikidata version of list
There is now a list of poems at Wikidata: d:Wikidata:Lists/poems_by_Emily_Dickinson. Jura1 (talk) 14:01, 20 November 2019 (UTC)