5.     Johnson is on firm ground when he asserts that the early editors of Dickinson’s poetry often distorted her intentions. Yet Johnson’s own, more faithful, text is still guilty of its own forms of distortion. To standardize Dickinson’s often indecipherable handwritten punctuation by the use of the dash is to render permanent a casual mode of poetic phrasing that Dickinson surely never expected to see in print. It implies that Dickinson chose the dash as her typical mark of punctuation when, in fact, she apparently never made any definitive choice at all.

Which of the following best summarizes the author’s main point?

(A) Although Johnson is right in criticizing Dickinson’s early editors for their distortion of her work, his own text is guilty of equally serious distortions.

(B) Johnson’s use of the dash in his text of Dickinson’s poetry misleads readers about the poet’s intentions.

(C) Because Dickinson never expected her poetry to be published, virtually any attempt at editing it must run counter to her intentions.

(D) Although Johnson’s attempt to produce a more faithful text of Dickinson’s poetry is well-meaning, his study of the material lacks sufficient thoroughness.（B）

(E) Dickinson’s editors, including Johnson, have failed to deal adequately with the problem of deciphering Dickinson’s handwritten manuscripts.

大全的答案是B，刚刚看到有位NN说选D，究竟选哪个？？请NN解释一下。。。

B is better answer。

In choice D his study of the material is not mentioned in the paragraph.Because there was no better choice for DICKSON to use in his article,he use the punctuation.But such use is not what he want to see.John use another way to express such use when he thought it was intetnionly used.So it's the mistaken which hold by John,but John thought he was right.In such case ,John did not understantd the intention of such use when John want to standardize the use of handwritten punctuation .

So in choice D,such point is not irrelevant to the argument.

Choice B is better,which means John mistook the intention of such use by DICKSON so that his press mistook the readers.