Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson (Editor), Mabel Loomis Todd (Editor)
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- Pub. Date: November 1988
- 288pp
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- Pub. Date: November 1988
- Publisher: Random House Value Publishing, Incorporated
- Format: Hardcover, 288pp
- ISBN-13: 9780517362426
- ISBN: 0517362422
- Edition Description: Special Value
Synopsis
Emily Dickinson was a prolific writer and yet, with the exception of four poems in a limited regional volume, her poems were never published during her lifetime. It was indeed fortunate that her sister discovered the poems—all loosely bound in bundles—shortly after Dickinson died.
Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson is the complete collection of the first three volumes of poetry published posthumously in 1890, 1891, and 1896 by editors Mary Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. The volumes were all received with high acclaim and contain some of her best-known poems. It was in the twentieth century, however, that Dickinson was finally recognized as one of the great poets and, without dispute, the most popular.
The name Emily Dickinson is a legend now, but she never had the opportunity to taste the wine of success and fame in her lifetime. In fact, if there was any legendary status she received in her life, it was not for poetry but for the way she lived her life. She received local notoriety in her native town of Amherst, Massachusetts, as an eccentric recluse who, with few exceptions, would never set foot outside her house. Yet, as her poetry will attest, she had a keen insight of life, love, nature, and death and seemed to be content with her station in life.
Reading through the poems in Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, you will see that she was indeed a woman of independence and spirit, a poet that lives today in our hearts and minds.
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Soothing Words for the Soulby Anonymous
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April 19, 2005: When you picture Emily Dickinson you not may think of a younger woman who sat at a desk with a feather pen. You may think of her as a social woman who held parties and spent hours outside writing her personal thoughts on the life she encountered. But, in truth, Emily Dickinson was a young woman who spent hours inside one house in one room most of her life. You wouldn't expect the depth of the writing in this collection of poems, especially coming from a woman who had this lifestyle. Dickinson's writing style seems to be depressing, but the more you think about them, they can be quite soothing and uplifting. If you pick this book up, you must be in the mood to really concentrate, because these poems can be difficult to understand. These poems were written in the 1800's, so it might help to be familiar with this writing. However, this book provides a taste for different language than that of today. These poems also provide relief and escapefrom your life, helping you to uncover a deeper way of thinking, and access to someone else's thoughts. These poems are wonderful, and I highly reccomend them to teens and adults of all ages!
To comprehend a nectar requires sorest needby Anonymous
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October 13, 2002: We are all unique - and all writers are in their own way unique- but there are certain writers , very few perhaps, whose uniqueness is so pronounced and so essential to all they are that one wonders how God possibly invented them. My own choice for the two most unique writers in this sense are Kafka and Emily Dickinson. American and world poetry have had and will have no one like her. Perhaps the only real review of her work at this point, when so much praise has already been written in so many different ways, is for me to simply write ' out loud ' as it were a few of those lines which truly break the icy sea within, which truly bring the chill down the spine , which truly make the mind feel as if it is being born again in listening. " Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed,to comprehend a nectar requires sorest need.Not one of all the purple host who took the flag today , can tell a definition so clear of victory , as he defeated,dying on whose forbidden ear, the distant strains of triumph , burst agonized and clear " I feel these lines and many other of Emily Dickinson within me.They enrich my inner life and world, and when I need them I bring them back to me. How odd the slant of her lines and her light, bring consolation to me when I try to dream why my life too is an inward longing for an unseen love only God can find and remember.
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