A collection of poems by “one of America’s greatest and most
original poets of all time” (Poetry Foundation). One of the
nineteenth century’s leading poets, Emily Dickinson wrote nearly
1,800 poems during her lifetime, though only a handful were published.
This collection includes some of Dickinson’s best-known works,
reflecting her thoughts on nature, life, death, the mind, and the
spirit. “Emily Dickinson is one of our most original writers, a
force destined to endure in American letters. . . . Without
elaborate philosophy, yet with irresistible ways of expression, Emily
Dickinson’s poems have true lyric appeal, because they make
abstractions, such as love, hope, loneliness, death, and immortality,
seem near and intimate and faithful.” —The Atlantic “Emily
Dickinson did not leave any poetics or treatise to explain her
life’s work, so we can come to her poetry with minds and hearts
open, and unearth whatever it is we need to find. Her oeuvre is a
large one and most of her work was done in secret—she didn’t share
most of what she wrote. Ten or so poems were published in her
lifetime, mostly without her consent. She often included poems with
letters but, after her death, the poet’s sister Vinnie was surprised
to find almost eighteen hundred individual poems in Dickinson’s
bedroom, some of them bound into booklets by the poet.”
—Publishers Weekly “Dickinson found love, spiritual quickening
and immortality, all on her own terms.” —The Guardian
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ISBN
9781504061377
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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