{"title":"A Correction: David Parsons, Machinist and Clockmaker, in The Letters of Emily Dickinson","authors":"Michelle Kohler","doi":"10.1353/EDJ.2018.0010","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In an editorial note to Emily Dickinson's January 12, 1846 letter to Abiah Root, Thomas H. Johnson mis-identifies the David Parsons to whom Dickinson refers as the longtime pastor of the First Church. This essay corrects this record: the letter refers in fact to the pastor's son of the same name, a highly skilled machinist and clockmaker. The essay offers a brief history of this David Parsons and considers some of the ways Dickinson's familiarity with the local mechanical genius and clockmaker might inform our reading of some of her poems.","PeriodicalId":41721,"journal":{"name":"Emily Dickinson Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2019-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/EDJ.2018.0010","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Emily Dickinson Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/EDJ.2018.0010","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"N/A","JCRName":"LITERATURE, AMERICAN","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:In an editorial note to Emily Dickinson's January 12, 1846 letter to Abiah Root, Thomas H. Johnson mis-identifies the David Parsons to whom Dickinson refers as the longtime pastor of the First Church. This essay corrects this record: the letter refers in fact to the pastor's son of the same name, a highly skilled machinist and clockmaker. The essay offers a brief history of this David Parsons and considers some of the ways Dickinson's familiarity with the local mechanical genius and clockmaker might inform our reading of some of her poems.
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