(1) The numbers in parentheses are those assigned by Thomas H. Johnson, editor of The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, to the poems in the 1955 variorum edition.

(2) The necessary antithesis of the clean, facsimile page is therefore the riotous variorum page where perhaps only a single line of primary text remains.

(3) Malone's work verges, in fact, on the encyclopedic: in his variorum edition he anticipates the modern collaborative online encyclopedias.

(4) Fisher's great book has been reissued in a variorum edition.

(5) Though one does not usually think of scholarly variorums as narratives, they in fact are.

(6) I once noted the oddity that Hardy had two variorums and no concordance, while Hopkins had two concordances and no variorum.