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The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Collected Poems of America's Most Original Poet
Paperback
Classic FictionGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781617206993
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Mar 22 2012
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Emily Dickinson is now recognized as one of the most original and influential poets in American literature. During her lifetime, however, her extraordinary body of work remained largely unseen by the public.
Although Dickinson wrote nearly eighteen hundred poems, fewer than a dozen were published while she was alive, and those that appeared in print were often altered by editors to conform to the conventional poetic rules of the nineteenth century. Her distinctive style-marked by unconventional punctuation, compressed language, and startling imagery-did not easily fit the expectations of her era.
Following Dickinson's death in 1886, her younger sister Lavinia discovered a remarkable cache of manuscripts carefully preserved among the poet's personal papers. The discovery revealed the full scope of Dickinson's work and initiated the gradual publication of poems that would come to transform American poetry. Readers soon recognized the originality of a voice that combined philosophical depth with an intensely personal vision.
The poems collected in this volume reflect Dickinson's wide-ranging concerns: nature, mortality, faith, love, and the mysteries of consciousness. Through deceptively simple language and striking metaphor, Dickinson explores the inner landscapes of thought and emotion with a clarity and intensity that continues to resonate with readers today.
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