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Title: Final Harvest by Emily Dickinson ISBN: 0-316-18415-2 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 30 January, 1964 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Loaded Gun Which
Comment: Everyone who aims for the ultimate, the elusive, and the exquisite, ought to pack. The edition is affordable, durable, well-organized, comprehensive . . . and produced with care NOT to alter the form or format of the poems . . . which for some dreadful reason a lot of folks seem to feel compelled to do . . .
more importantly . . . all that white witchcraft still dazzles
Rating: 4
Summary: Perhaps we are looking at the wrong aspects...
Comment: Don't get me wrong, I truly love a large selection of the poems in this volume. However, that is a measure of Emily Dickenson and me, not T. Johnson's collection. What makes this book better than many that are around and about, as has been mentioned, is the lack of editing to her poems--something that has always bothered me. In this regard, the content of the poems is better than many others, however there are other issues of note.
This is, of course, an abridged collection. As such, we are forced to rely on the opinion of another. Granted this is common enough with poetry collections, but that doesn't change the very nature of each person having differing interests. There is no way to know if the ones he leaves out are just as good or even better, from each individuals perspective, without going to more comprehensive texts.
Regardless, I do have one gripe with this book that is unrelated to the above pettiness. The method of dating each poem seems silly to me. The reason is that they are all claimed to be from one of several (if memory serves 3) years separated out over several decades. That and there are two listings of dates for each poem, which I don't recall off hand why they did that, and it may serve some purpose, but it's not useful information if when these poems were written can only be pinned down to plus or minus five-ten years. I can't blame Johnson for this as I imagine that is as close as is known, but, by the same token, the dates could have been left out so that it doesn't detract from the actual poetry.
All in all I would recomend this book, but I might suggest getting a more complete version instead (so long as it is unedited--Emily hated it when people wanted to edit her poems, and I think that we should respect that).
Rating: 5
Summary: Strong Medicine
Comment: I was never actually a fan of poetry until I encountered Emily Dickinson's poems. It seems as if she has written a poem for everyone. I strongly recomend this book, as my English teacher did to me, not only because of my love for Emily Dickinson, but for the quality of the book. It is obvious that Thomas H. Johnson, the editor, put many long hours of hard work into gathering this collection. Many of her poems were simply scribbled on little pieces of paper, which makes me wonder what kind of literary genius she must have been. With the help of this book, she has become my favorite poet, and I have learned that poetry can be strong medicine for the hurting soul. Final Harvest never leaves my side.
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Title: Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner ISBN: 0679732187 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman ISBN: 0553211161 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 June, 1983 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Selections from Ralph Waldo Emerson : An Organic Anthology by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen Whicher ISBN: 0395051126 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 January, 1900 List Price(USD): $17.56 |
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Title: Selected Poems : Revised Edition by Robert Lowell ISBN: 0374514003 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1977 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Play in Two Acts by August Wilson ISBN: 0452261139 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: March, 1988 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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