Hope is the thing with feathers imagery

Lyric poem by Emily Dickinson

"'Hope' is the thing with feathers" is a lyric poem in ballad meter by American poet Emily Dickinson.

The poem's manuscript appears in Fascicle 13, which Dickinson compiled around 1861.^[1] It is one of 19 poems in the collection, in addition to the poem "There's a certain Slant of light".^[1] With the discovery of Fascicle 13 after Dickinson's death by her sister, Lavinia Dickinson, "'Hope' is the thing with feathers" was published in 1891 in a collection of her works under the title Poems, which was edited and published by Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd.

History of publication

"'Hope' is the thing with feathers" was first compiled in one of Dickinson's hand-sewn fascicles, which was written during and put together in 1861.^[1] In the 1999 edition of The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition, R.

W. Franklin changed the year of appearance from 1861,