The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Modern Library Classics) - Softcover

Dickinson, Emily

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0345472411 ISBN 13: 9780345472410

Publisher: Modern Library, 2004

Synopsis

Emily Dickinson lived as a recluse in Amherst, Massachusetts, dedicating herself to writing a "letter to the world"--the 1,775 poems left unpublished at her death in 1886. Today, Dickinson stands in the front rank of American poets. This enthralling collection includes more than four hundred poems that were published between Dickinson's death and 1900. They express her concepts of life and death, of love and nature, and of what Henry James called "the landscape of the soul." And as Billy Collins suggests in his Introduction, "In the age of the workshop, the reading, the poetry conference and festival, Dickinson reminds us of the deeply private nature of literary art."
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Review:

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Archibald MacLeish has noted the "curious energy" which pervades Emily Dickinson's work. She, along with Walt Whitman, helps make up the very foundation of American poetry. This Modern Library edition from Random House is an excellent overview of Dickinson's work, divided by theme, including "Life," "Nature," "Love," and so forth. This volume of selected poems is a must for any serious reader of American poetry.

From the Back Cover:

"No one can read these poems...without perceiving that he is not so much reading as being spoken to."
--Archibald MacLeish
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Modern Library
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0345472411
• ISBN 13: 9780345472410
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320