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Explore the essence of life, love, nature, and time in exquisite
verse with this elegantly designed edition of Emily Dickinson’s
finest poems. Born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a
prominent New England family and educated at Amherst Academy and
Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary, Emily Elizabeth Dickinson lived most
of her life in seclusion, devoted to writing. She scarcely left
home, nor did she have many visitors. Only ten of her poems were
published in her lifetime, submitted without her permission by
friends. It was only after her death in 1886 that the scope of her
work as a poet came to light—over 1,700 poems were discovered in
a dresser drawer by her sister, Lavinia. Emily Dickinson’s poems
reflect her loneliness, as well as her love of nature, the
influence of the Metaphysical poets of seventeenth century England,
and her strong Puritan religious beliefs. Yet, it is her use of
language, form, and the deceptive simplicity of her verse that
categorize her as an important force in nineteenth century American
letters and, along with Walt Whitman, a founder of a distinctly
American voice in modern poetry. PRELUDE THIS is my letter to the
world, That never wrote to me,— That simple news that Nature
told, With tender majesty. Her message is committed To hands I
cannot see; For love of her, sweet countrymen, Judge tenderly of
me! The Timeless Classics series from Rock Point brings together
the works of classic authors from around the world. Complete and
unabridged, these elegantly designed gift editions feature luxe,
patterned endpapers, ribbon markers, and foil and deboss details on
vibrantly colored cases. Celebrate these beloved works of
literature as true standouts in your personal library collection.
The startling originality of Emily Dickinson's style condemned her
poetry to obscurity during her lifetime, but her bold experiments
in prosody, her tragic vision, and the range of her intellectual
and emotional explorations have since won her international
recognition as a poet of the highest order. The Complete Poems is
the only one-volume edition containing all of Emily Dickinson's
verse. In this landmark edition, the editor, Thomas H. Johnson, has
presented the poems in their original contexts; and where alternate
readings were suggested, he has chosen only those which the poet
evidently preferred. His introduction includes a brief explanation
of his selection of texts as well as an outline of Emily
Dickinson's career.
'It's coming - the postponeless Creature' Electrifying poems of
isolation, beauty, death and eternity from a reclusive genius and
one of America's greatest writers. One of 46 new books in the
bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first
ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of
the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the
world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence,
heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
With an Introduction by Emma Hartnoll. Initially a vivacious,
outgoing person, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) progressively withdrew
into a reclusive existence. An undiscovered genius during her
lifetime, only seven out of her total of 1,775 poems were published
prior to her death. She had an immense breadth of vision and a
passionate intensity and awe for life, love, nature, time and
eternity. Originally branded an eccentric, Emily Dickinson is now
recognised as a major poet of great depth, startling originality
and courage for as she wrote: 'Assent and you are sane; /Demure
you're straightaway dangerous / And handled with a chain'.
"This is my letter to the world . . ." - Emily Dickinson The Poetry
of Emily Dickinson is a collection of pieces by 19th-century
American poet Emily Dickinson, who insisted that her life of
isolation gave her an introspective and deep connection with the
world. As a result, her work parallels her life-misunderstood in
its time, but full of depth and imagination, and covering such
universal themes as nature, art, friendship, love, society,
mortality, and more. During Dickinson's lifetime, only seven of her
poems were published, but after her death, her prolific writings
were discovered and shared. With this volume, readers can dive into
the now widely respected poetry of Emily Dickinson.
This compact edition, designed for use in undergraduate courses,
combines a substantial selection of Dickinson’s poems (including
one complete fascicle) with a selection of letters and a range of
contextual materials. In a number of cases several different
versions of a poem are presented side by side. The texts are based
on the handwritten manuscripts themselves, in the facsimile form in
which the Emily Dickinson Archive now makes the vast majority of
Dickinson’s manuscript versions available to the general public.
The three major editions that are based directly on the
manuscripts—those of Thomas H. Johnson (1955), R.W. Franklin
(1998) and Cristanne Miller (2016)—have also been consulted; in
many cases where the transcriptions of these editors differ from
one another, this edition provides information in the notes as to
those differences. Extensive explanatory footnotes are also
provided, as is a concise but wide-ranging introduction to
Dickinson and her work. The appendices include excerpts from
numerous nineteenth-century reviews of Dickinson’s first
published volume (including by William Dean Howells and Andrew
Lang). Thomas Wentworth Higginson’s influential Atlantic Monthly
article, “Emily Dickinson’s Letters,” is also included in its
entirety. This volume is one of a number of editions that have been
drawn from the pages of the acclaimed Broadview Anthology of
American Literature; like the others, it is designed to make a
range of material from the anthology available in a format
convenient for use in a wide variety of contexts. This edition
departs from other editions in the series in one important
respect—its format. The large page size of the edition
facilitates the reproduction of manuscript pages in readable
facsimile form, and the two-column format of the text facilitates
comparison between different versions.
For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson's thirty-six
year correspondence to her 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 of censorship and
misinterpretation.
For the millions of readers who love Emily Dickinson's poetry,
"Open Me Carefully" brings new light to the meaning of the poet's
life and work. Gone is Emily as lonely spinster; here is Dickinson
in her own words, passionate and fully alive.
"With spare commentary, Smith ... and Hart ... let these letters
speak for themselves. Most important, unlike previous editors who
altered line breaks to fit their sense of what is poetry or prose,
Hart and Smith offer faithful reproductions of the letters'
genre-defying form as the words unravel spectacularly down the
original page." Renee Tursi, THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
American poet Emily Dickinson is revered around the world, and
influenced many feminist artists and writers. Her work is some of
the best known and most quoted or adapted: 'Hope is the thing with
feathers, that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the
words, and never stops at all' Emily Dickinson Dickinson received a
very good education, but chose to return home to Amherst,
Massachusetts, where she spent the rest of her life, writing more
than a poem a day until her death. Her refusal to compromise her
highly condensed expression meant that only a tiny fraction of her
work was published in her lifetime. Even today, her work feels
startlingly modern: 'Dogs are better than human beings because they
know but do not tell' Emily Dickinson 'The dearest ones of time,
the strongest friends of the soul - BOOKS' This is a superb
collection from a truly iconic poet.
Emily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined
words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. Nothing about her
adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Only
poems, written quietly in a room of her own, often hand-stitched in
small volumes, then hidden in a desk drawer, revealed her true
self. She did not live in time, as did that other great poet of the
day, Walt Whitman, but in universals. As she knowingly put it:
"There is one thing to be grateful for--that one is one's self and
not somebody else."
Dickinson lived and died without fame: she saw only a few poems
published. Her great legacy was later rescued from her desk
drawer--an astonishing body of work revealing her acute, sensitive
nature reaching out boldly from self-referral to a wider, imagined
world. Her family sought publication of Dickinson's poetry over the
years, selecting verses, often altering her words or her
punctuation, until, in 1955, the first important attempt was made
to collect and publish Dickinson's work, edited by Thomas H.
Johnson for the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Now, after many years of preparation by Ralph Franklin, the
foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts, a new comprehensive
edition is available. This three-volume work contains 1,789 poems,
the largest number ever assembled. The poems, arranged
chronologically, based on new dating, are drawn from a range of
archives, most frequently from holographs, but also from various
secondary sources representing lost manuscripts. The text of each
manuscript is rendered individually, including, within the capacity
of standard type, Dickinson's spelling, capitalization, and
punctuation. Franklin gives Dickinson's alternative readings for
the poems, her revisions, and the line and page, or column,
divisions in the source. Each entry identifies Franklin's editorial
emendations and records the publication history, including
variants. Fourteen appendices of tables and lists give additional
information, including poems attributed to Emily Dickinson. The
poems are indexed by numbers from the Johnson edition, as well as
by first lines.
Franklin has provided an introduction that serves as a guide to
this edition and surveys the history of the editing of Dickinson's
poems. His account of how Dickinson conducted her workshop is a
reconstruction of a remarkable poetic life.
Let your children discover the works of poet Emily Dickinson in
Emily Dickinson. As the premier title in the Poetry for Kids
series, Emily Dickinson introduces children to the works of poet
Emily Dickinson. Poet, professor, and scholar Susan Snively has
carefully chosen 35 poems of interest to children and their
families. Each poem is beautifully illustrated by Christine
Davenier and thoroughly explained by an expert. The gentle
introduction, which is divided into sections by season of the year,
includes commentary, definitions of important words, and a
foreword.
The only select volume of Emily Dickinson's poetry that truly represents the complete range of her work: 576 poems selected by the pre-eminent Dickinson scholar in America from the 1,1775 poems that form the body of her work.
Emily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords,
hurling barbed syllables/piercing. Nothing about her adult
appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Only poems,
written quietly in a room of her own, often hand-stitched in small
volumes, then hidden in a drawer, revealed her true self. She did
not live in time but in universals-an acute, sensitive nature
reaching out boldly from self-referral to a wider, imagined world.
Dickinson died without fame; only a few poems were published in her
lifetime. Her legacy was later rescued from her desk-an astonishing
body of work, much of which has since appeared in piecemeal
editions, sometimes with words altered by editors or publishers
according to the fashion of the day. Now Ralph Franklin, the
foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts, has prepared an
authoritative one-volume edition of all extant poems by 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-usually the
latest version of the entire poem-rendered with Dickinson's
spelling, punctuation, and capitalization intact. The Poems of
Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition is a milestone in American
literary scholarship and an indispensable addition to the personal
library of poetry lovers everywhere.
The Gorgeous Nothings - the first full-color facsimile edition of
Emily Dickinson's manuscripts ever to appear - is a deluxe edition
of her late writings, presenting this crucially important,
experimental late work exactly as she wrote it on scraps of
envelopes. A never-before-possible glimpse into the process of one
of our most important poets.The book presents all the envelope
writings - 52 - reproduced life-size in full color both front and
back, with an accompanying transcription to aid in the reading,
allowing us to enjoy this little-known but important body of
Dickinson's writing. Envisioned by the artist Jen Bervin and made
possible by the extensive research of the Dickinson scholar Marta
L. Werner, this book offers a new understanding and appreciation of
the genius of Emily Dickinson.
Widely considered the definitive edition of Emily Dickinson's
poems, this landmark collection presents her poems here for the
first time "as she preserved them," and in the order in which she
wished them to appear. It is the only edition of Dickinson's
complete poems to distinguish clearly those she took pains to copy
carefully onto folded sheets in fair hand-presumably to preserve
them for posterity-from the ones she kept in rougher form. It is
also unique among complete editions in presenting the alternate
words and phrases Dickinson chose to use on the copies of the poems
she kept, so that we can peer over her shoulder and see her
composing and reworking her own poems. The world's foremost scholar
of Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller, guides us through these
stunning poems with her deft and unobtrusive notes, helping us
understand the poet's quotations and allusions, and explaining how
she composed, copied, and circulated her poems. Miller's brilliant
reordering of the poems transforms our experience of them. A true
delight, this award-winning collection brings us closer than we
have ever been to the writing practice of one of America's greatest
poets. With its clear, uncluttered page and beautiful production
values, it is a gift for students of Emily Dickinson and for anyone
who loves her poems.
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Envelope Poems (Hardcover)
Emily Dickinson; Edited by Jen Bervin, Marta Werner
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Although a very prolific poet-and arguably America's greatest-Emily
Dickinson (1830-1886) published fewer than a dozen of her eighteen
hundred poems. Instead, she created at home small handmade books.
When, in her later years, she stopped producing these, she was
still writing a great deal, and at her death she left behind many
poems, drafts, and letters. It is among the makeshift and fragile
manuscripts of Dickinson's later writings that we find the envelope
poems gathered here. These manuscripts on envelopes (recycled by
the poet with marked New England thrift) were written with the full
powers of her late, most radical period. Intensely alive, these
envelope poems are charged with a special poignancy-addressed to no
one and everyone at once. Full-color facsimiles are accompanied by
Marta L. Werner and Jen Bervin's pioneering transcriptions of
Dickinson's handwriting. Their transcriptions allow us to read the
texts, while the facsimiles let us see exactly what Dickinson wrote
(the variant words, crossings-out, dashes, directional fields,
spaces, columns, and overlapping planes).
This complete compendium of Emily Dickenson's poetry offers the
reader a vivid portrait of one of Massachusetts' most famous and
enigmatic poets. Although a greatly talented writer, Emily
Dickenson lived most of her life in private seclusion, in contrast
to the culture of the time which emphasized community and
socializing. Throughout her life, Emily's family ensured her care
and comfort; she lived a life characterized by quiet
self-seclusion. Emily's early life ensured a great standard of
education, with her aunts in particular noting her inclination
toward musical and literary interests. Contemporary scholars
generally agree that Emily Dickenson's isolation was chiefly the
result of a persistent depression. The death of a school principal
she admired, and of several friends, plummeted her toward isolation
during the prime of her life. Despite her illness, she managed to
travel with her family to see life beyond her hometown of Amhurst
and publish a few of her poems.
Over 100 best-known, best-loved poems by one of America's foremost poets, reprinted from authoritative early editions. "The Snake," "Hope," "The Chariot," many more, display unflinching honesty, psychological penetration, technical adventurousness that have delighted and impressed generations of poetry lovers. No comparable edition at this price. Index of first lines.
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