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Title: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson ISBN: 0316184136 Publisher: Little Brown & Co (Pap) Pub. Date: January, 1976 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.63
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant..
Comment: As a few have stated already, a lot of Emily Dickinson's poems appear simple on the surface. Don't let the simplicity or brevity fool you, boiling underneath the metaphors of Dickinson's poems are some of the most beautiful visions I've ever read. Intelligent, thoughtful..haunting are all words I'd use to describe her poems. She has quickly vaulted to the top of the list of my favorite poets along with William Blake and Edgar Allan Poe.
And speaking of her poems, there are plenty. All of them in fact, in chronological order allowing the reader to see the progession in her poems. This is a great book at a great price to be able to own all she has written.
Since her poems have no titles, there are two invaluable features included at the back to help aid the search for the desired poem. One is an alphabetical subject index, with words and lines linked to poems with which they belong. The other index includes the first lines of all 1775 poems.
An excellent all around souce for all your Emily Dickinson needs. Enjoy.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the greatest of all writers of poetry in English
Comment: This is the standard and authoritative collected edition of Emily Dickinson's poems. It is a book that will stay with you for the rest of your life. I can think of no finer writer of poetry in English who manages to invest so short and simple a construction - no more than a couple of lines in some cases - with such emotional force. I say 'simple', but her poems are simple only in a deceptive sense. An unfinished poem like "A letter is a joy of earth/ It is denied the gods -" (that's the whole poem) says more about the joy of constructing prose than any number of effusive efforts from the Romantics.
Miss Dickinson has suffered from having been appropriated by the rather dreary crowd of 'cultural critics' who cannot grasp that a work of art tells us primarily not about the social mores of the time it was written in but about the human spirit. She is especially vulnerable to this sort of irrelevant sophistry, having lived as a recluse for much of her life and thus being ripe for 'interpretation' that is nothing more than a recitation of modern political sensibilities. That's a shame, and it certainly shouldn't put you off reading her. So far as I'm concerned, there is no one - not even Shakespeare, not even Jane Austen or Dickens - whom I read more frequently, and with greater pleasure and benefit.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the few poets who ever perfected a method.
Comment: I have 1000 words to tell what Dickinson means to me, an impossible task I gladly take up. I'd like to respond to others on this page. I once called Dickinson the "patron saint of lonely people everywhere," so I can identify with what one person said about teenage shut-ins. And I don't blame the person who snubbed her for not leaving a name--I'd be embarrassed to as well. Emily egotistical? The poet who wrote, "I'm nobody"? Wow. I love Dickinson's work so much because her vision of life is so fully her own, so at odds with the views of those around her. Can you imagine knowing you are the most brilliant lyric poet of your time (Whitman was more an epic or narrative poet), and knowing no one understood you? It's like trying to communicate in a foreign language that only you know. In fact, that is exactly what she did--she explodes the syntax, vocabulary, and syllabication of English and transforms it into her own private means of communication. She demands that we meet her on her ground. True, reading her work is not "fun"--there's too much pain and burning beauty in it to be an easy ride. She is not for everyone--only for those who see that life's disappointments both destroy and liberate us at the same time: comparing human hurts to trees destroyed by nature's forces, she says (in poem 314), "We--who have the Souls-- / Die oftener--Not so vitally--." Those may be the finest lines any poet ever wrote in English.
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Title: The Life of Emily Dickinson by Richard Benson Sewall ISBN: 0674530802 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman ISBN: 1586632108 Publisher: Metro Books Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.98 |
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Title: The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost ISBN: 0805069860 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Walt Whitman: The Complete Poems by Francis Murphy, Walt Whitman ISBN: 0140422226 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: July, 1990 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats by Richard J. Finneran, William Butler Yeats ISBN: 0684807319 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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