"Faith is a fine invention"

]> "Faith is a fine invention" by Emily Dickinson 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.

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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.

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A 660, verse embedded in letter to Samuel Bowles. H 201, fascicle version of poem. H 72, fascicle version of poem. Published as poem XXX in the second volume of Todd and Higginson's Poems of Emily Dickinson. Letter to Samuel Bowles published in Todd's edition of Dickinson's letters. Published as poem LVI in Martha Dickinson Bianchi's Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Letter to Samuel Bowles published in Bianchi's The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson.

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