This repo contains the complete poems of Emily Dickinson in the poems folder. The poems have been OCR'd and only 344 of them have been manually corrected, so there are likely still many errors. Also, as part of the OCR process I ran them through GPT4 and told it to fix any spelling mistakes, and it seems it has randomly replaced some of the words as well (I noticed around 1 word substitution per 100 poems or so).
So, Caveat Lector.
In the process of reading them, I put some of them into categories. I developed the categories as I was reading. If I categorized them, this is an endorsement, but some categories are bigger endorsements than others. So, I have collected some of the categories into pdfs:
- Nature and the Natural World (87 poems)
- Time, Scale and Eternity (47 poems)
- Emily (55 poems)
- Day, Night and Insomnia (34 poems)
The raw lists are in lists as lists of poem numbers and as rendered pdfs of those poems. A total of 344 poems were selected out of 1775.
Of the raw lists, I think the following are best:
- Images (25 poems)
- Madness (13 poems)
- Autobiography (34 poems)
- Love (31 poems)
- Misc (39 poems)
- Fun (29 poems)
And by favourites apparently are
- Best (47 poems)
though its possible I forgot to double categorize some of them.