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| | The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson€ 9.25
Emily Dickinson proved that brevity can be beautiful.
Only now is her complete oeuvre - all 1, 775 poems - available in its original form, uncorrupted by editorial revision, in one volume.
The Complete Poems is especially refreshing because Dickinson didn t write for publication; only 11 of her verses appeared in magazines during her lifetime, and she had long - resigned herself to anonymity, or a "Barefoot - Rank, " as she phrased it. This is the perfect volume for readers wishing to explore the works of one of America s first poets.
This organization allows a wide - angle view of Dickinson s poetic development, from the sometimes - clunky rhyme schemes of her juvenilia, including valentines she wrote in the early 1850s, to the gloomy, hell - obsessed writings from her last years. Quite a difference from requisite Dickinson entries in literary anthologies : "There s a certain Slant of light, " "Wild Nights - Wild Nights!" and "I taste a liquor never brewed."
The book was compiled from Thomas H. Johnson s hard - to - find variorum from 1955. While some explanatory notes would have been helpful, it s a prodigious collection, showcasing Dickinson s intractable obsession with nature, including death. Poem 1732, which alludes to the deaths of her father and a onetime suitor, illustrates her talent :
My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,
So huge, so hopeless to conceive
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.
The musicality of her punctuation and the outright elegance of her style - akin to Christina Rossetti s hymns, although not nearly so religious - rescue the poems from their occasional abstruseness.
Thomas H. Johnson, a longtime Dickinson scholar, arranged the poems in chronological order as far as could be ascertained (the dates for more than 100 are unknown).
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| | | | Brilliant..
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.
| | I've had this book for 10 years now...
And I still turn to it all the time. It is well-worn and well-read. There are newer editions of Dickinson's poetry, but this relatively compact book feels like an old friend. The use of language and phrasing is divine - so to speak. *smile* I cannot recommend this work enough.Meeting by Accident, We hovered by design - As often as a Century An error so divine Is ratified by Destiny, But Destiny is old And economical of Bliss As Midas is of Gold -
| Kathy, it's DEMUR, not DEMURE! No small difference...
Much Madness is divinest Sense - To a discerning Eye - Much Sense - the starkest Madness - 'Tis the Majority In this, as All, prevail - Assent - and you are sane - Demur - you're straightway dangerous - And handled with a Chain -
| | the starkest Madness-
Assent-and you are Sane-Demure- you're straightway dangerous- And handled with a Chain- E. Dickinson I like the way she manipulates language...how everything is more than it seems, and I love her slashes and dashes. Slash and Dash.
| Good for its time, but...
Now that the wonderful three volume Franklin edition Dickinson's poems exist, I don't see how this old Johnson edition could be taken seriously. Johnson's choices for a particular reading were not always the best -- many of Dickinson's poems don't have a sanctioned "final" form from the poet. Franklin's edition presents the poems with all the variations in words and phrases so that the reader could decide which of the variations works best when Dickinson herself was undecided. If you love Emily Dickinson, invest in the Franklin Variorum edition. It's worth every penny of it's rather high price.
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