Petrőczi Éva: Holt költők társaságában. A Puritanizmuskutató Intézet és a Medgyesi Pál Puritán Kiskönyvtár emlékére - Nemzet, egyház, művelődés 9. (Sárospatak, 2014)
Emily Dickinson, the Poetess-Queen of the Webster Dictionary To Tamás Magay, the eternal lexicographer-theologian
PETRŐCZI ÉVA: HOLT KÖLTŐK TÁRSASÁGÁBAN Louise Kline Kelly’s A Concordance of Emily Dickinsons Poems, a dissertation at Penn State College, from 1951, was the very first step towards the construction of an Emily Dickinson Lexicon. The very word “concordance” leads us back again to the biblical-theological nature of Emily Dickinson’s poetry. We are familiar with the useful concordances which are our compasses when studying the text of various books of the bible and now this highly biblical poetess has also got such a serious sextant, for the navigators on the ocean of her vocabulary. After so many poetically formulated remarks let us close our short survey with the highly objective words of the Nature of the Emily Dickinson Lexicon Project: “The Emily Dickinson Lexicon, Introduction, http://edl.byu.edu -Emily Dickinson Lexicon is a dictionary of alphabetized headword entries for all the words in Emily Dickinson’s collected poems (Johnson 1955 and Franklin 1998 editions). The scope of the Dickinson lexicon is comprehensive. A team of lexicographers and reviewers has examined almost 100,000 individual word occurrences to create approximately 9,275 headword entries. The EDL includes proper nouns, person names, and place names that are not usually listed in general dictionaries of the English language. Because high-frequency function words such as a, of and they are important for Dickinson studies, the EDL includes basic definitions for 168 words that were omitted from Rosenbaum’s concordance (XI) with their 38, 235 occurrences. Words from Dickinson’s collected letters are not included in the EDL at this time. Visitors and users can view the EDL by clicking on the lexicon tab in the top frame of the website. To see multiple alphabetical entries, click on a letter of the alphabet or on a page number as serialized below the running headers for each EDL page. To access a specific entry, type a Dickinson word in the basic white »Searches« box provided in the upper right hand corner of the layout. Registered users have access to additional search options, by clicking on the phrase »Searches«”.326 As we learn from the above quoted , highly informative lines: at the moment only Emily Dickinson’s poetical heritage, only her lyrical vocabulary can be reached in this excellent online lexicon project. To enlist the words of her collected letter will be another great effort of lexicographers and other scholars of Brigham Young University, the pioneer institution which started 326 Emily Dickinson Lexicon, Introduction, http://edl.byu.edu/introduction.php (01.02. 2014) 150
