"Faith is a fine invention"

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"Faith is a fine invention"

by Emily Dickinson

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See Witness List.

Witness A660: A 660, verse embedded in letter to Samuel Bowles.
Witness H201: H 201, fascicle version of poem.
Witness H72: H 72, fascicle version of poem.
Witness P1891: Published as poem XXX in the second volume of Todd and Higginson's Poems of Emily Dickinson. ( Show Image )
Witness L1894: Letter to Samuel Bowles published in Todd's edition of Dickinson's letters.
Witness CP: Published as poem LVI in Martha Dickinson Bianchi's Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. ( Show Image )
Witness LL: Letter to Samuel Bowles published in Bianchi's The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson. ( Show Image )

Textual Notes: Electronic Edition Information

Text encoding by Jarom McDonald.
Proofing by Lara Vetter

This poem is available only for demonstration purposes. It was created as part of a research project to experiment with ways of displaying multiple witnesses of a TEI-encoded poem using XML, XSLT and JavaScript.

Encoding Principles

Test document for versioning machine project. Marked-up collation of three manuscript witnesses: A 660, H 201, and H 72, and four early print witnesses: Poems (1891)--XXX, Letters (1894)--p. 191, Complete Poems (1924)--LVI, and Life and Letters (1926)--p. 227.

DTD constructed from TEI prose base with tagsets for linking, figures, analysis, transcr, textcrit.

initializing

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