Emily Dickinson
Author
Language
English
Description
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), the reclusive and intensely private poet saw only a few of her poems (she wrote well over a thousand) published during her life. After discovering a trove of manuscripts left in a wooden box, Dickinson's sister Lavinia, fortunately, chose to disobey Emily's wishes for her work to be burned after death. With the help of Amherst professors, Lavinia brought her sister's gifted verse into print. "The Collected Poems of Emily...
Author
Publisher
The Modern Library
Pub. Date
c1924
Language
English
Description
Although Emily Dickinson wrote nearly 2,000 poems, only a handful were ever published in her lifetime, and those anonymously. Today, she is recognized as one of the most important American poets of the nineteenth century, one whose unconventional use of language and rhyme anticipated the break with tradition of much modern poetry written after it. The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson collects more than 150 of Dickinsons brief but memorable poems....
Author
Publisher
Paris Press
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
The 19th—century American poet's uncensored and breathtaking letters, poems, and letter-poems to her sister-in-law and childhood friend.
For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson's thirty-six year correspondence with her childhood friend, neighbor, and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson's life and work, overcoming a century...
Author
Publisher
World Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[1951]
Language
English
Description
Only five of Emily Dickinson's poems were published while she lived; today, approximately 1,500 are in print. Dickinson's poetry reflects the power of her contemplative gifts, and her deep sensitivity courses through her correspondence as well. Lovingly compiled by a close friend, this first collection of Dickinson's letters originally appeared in 1894, only eight years after the poet's death. Although she grew reclusive in her later years and seldom...
Author
Publisher
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Emily Dickinson's Poems: As She Preserved Them is a major new edition of Dickinson's verse intended for the scholar, student, and general reader. It foregrounds the copies of poems that Dickinson retained for herself during her lifetime, in the form she retained them. This is the only edition of Dickinson's complete poems to distinguish in easy visual form the approximately 1,100 poems she took pains to copy carefully onto folded sheets in fair hand--arguably...
Author
Publisher
Belknap Press
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
"Ralph Franklin, the foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts, has prepared an authoritative one-volume edition of all extant poems of Emily Dickinson - 1,789 poems in all, the largest number ever assembled. This reading edition derives from his three-volume work, The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition (1998), which contains approximately 2,500 sources for the poems. In this one-volume edition, Franklin offers a single reading of each poem...
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Series
Publisher
Paw Prints Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In Hope is the Thing with Feathers, readers follow the story of a little bird who brings joy to everyone through his song. When a storm hits, the little bird's song is diminished, but he never gives up, and when the storm passes he is there to give joy again as people rebuild."--Amazon.com.
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Series
Publisher
Bushel & Peck Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In this gorgeously crafted collection of poems, you'll find twenty-five of Emily Dickinson's most beloved works, each brought to life in stunning, full-color collage illustrations. With helpful definitions, critical commentary, and thought-provoking questions for each poem, 'The Illustrated Emily Dickinson' is the most accessible--and beautiful--introduction to the Belle of Amherst available!"--
