"Hope" is the thing with feathers

The poem was published posthumously as "Hope" in 1891

"'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.

  1. ^ a b Dickinson, Emily (1981). Franklin, R. W. (ed.). The manuscript books of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674548280. OCLC 6446918.