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The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

(Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)

By Rachel Wetzsteon, Emily Dickinson

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| Paperback | 9781593080501

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Born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830, Dickinson began life as an energetic, outgoing young woman who excelled as a student. However, in her mid-twenties she began to grow reclusive, and eventually she rarely descended from her room in her father’s house. She spent most of her time worContinue

Born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830, Dickinson began life as an energetic, outgoing young woman who excelled as a student. However, in her mid-twenties she began to grow reclusive, and eventually she rarely descended from her room in her father’s house. She spent most of her time working on her poetry, largely without encouragement or real interest from her family and peers, and died at age fifty-five. Only a handful of her 1,775 poems had been published during her lifetime. When her poems finally appeared after her death, readers immediately recognized an artist whose immense depth and stylistic complexities would one day make her the most widely recognized female poet to write in the English language.

Dickinson’s poetry is remarkable for its tightly controlled emotional and intellectual energy. The longest poem covers less than two pages. Yet in theme and tone her writing reaches for the sublime as it charts the landscape of the human soul. A true innovator, Dickinson experimented freely with conventional rhythm and meter, and often used dashes, off rhymes, and unusual metaphors—techniques that strongly influenced modern poetry. Dickinson’s idiosyncratic style, along with her deep resonance of thought and her observations about life and death, love and nature, and solitude and society, have firmly established her as one of America’s true poetic geniuses.

Includes an index of first lines.

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  • Utterly brilliant.

    Although it’s marked by time – and what really isn’t? – in a way which isn’t my marred, modern cup of tea, the sheer potency of Dickinson’s language, rhythm, coinage of words and non-rhymes win me over completely, and take me to another level totally.

    I shan’t say more on the po ... (continue)

    Utterly brilliant.

    Although it’s marked by time – and what really isn’t? – in a way which isn’t my marred, modern cup of tea, the sheer potency of Dickinson’s language, rhythm, coinage of words and non-rhymes win me over completely, and take me to another level totally.

    I shan’t say more on the poetry itself, but the imagery painted is sharp, veering from “the usual” in a way that has lived for more than a hundred years and will continue living forever, I’m sure.

    While this collection does not contain all of her poems, it is annotated with short sentences on names, places and references, e.g. to passages from the christian bible and other poets.

    This collection’s only real flaw: it’s too short.

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    Niklas Pivic said on Oct 8, 2010 | Add your feedback

  • Emily Dickinson is my very favorite poet. Some of her poems are as simple and short as haikus, some others are mysterious and hard to grasp. Her poetry is pure, timeless, absolutely wonderful.

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    Lilyofthevalleys2000 said on Sep 8, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 400 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1593080506
  • ISBN-13: 9781593080501
  • Publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics
  • Pub date: Oct 12, 2003
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 839 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
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