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1. Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson | |
Paperback: 470
Pages
(2010-07-12)
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Poor Choice
Creative Genius |
2. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson | |
Paperback: 770
Pages
(1976-01-30)
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Editorial Review Product Description The book was compiled from Thomas H. Johnson'shard-to-find variorum from 1955. While some explanatory notes wouldhave been helpful, it's a prodigious collection, showcasingDickinson's intractable obsession with nature, including death. Poem1732, which alludes to the deaths of her father and a onetime suitor,illustrates her talent: My life closed twice before its close; So huge, so hopeless to conceive The musicality of her punctuation and the outright eleganceof her style--akin to Christina Rossetti's hymns,although not nearly so religious--rescue the poems from theiroccasional abstruseness. The Complete Poems is especiallyrefreshing because Dickinson didn't write for publication; only 11 ofher verses appeared in magazines during her lifetime, and she hadlong-resigned herself to anonymity, or a "Barefoot-Rank," asshe phrased it. This is the perfect volume for readers wishing toexplore the works of one of America's first poets. Customer Reviews (57)
Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
A Different Poet
Essential Dickinson
A Marvelous Edtiton of Emily Dickinson's Poetry.
Really terrible as Kindle book |
3. Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson | |
Paperback: 102
Pages
(2009-12-23)
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piece of junk
A Reading of Poem 431 - "If I may have it, when it's dead,"
Kindle edition way overpriced at $1.99
Buy another version!
Emiily Dickinson for Real! |
4. The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson: A Novel by Jerome Charyn | |
Hardcover: 348
Pages
(2010-02-22)
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Emily's "secret life" exists in the creative realm of Charyn's imagination
Emily's voice
At Home with Emily
A letter to Mr. Charyn on his latest work:
The voice of Emily Dickinson comes alive |
5. Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries by Helen Vendler | |
Hardcover: 560
Pages
(2010-09-07)
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Editorial Review Product Description Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson. As she did in The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, she serves as an incomparable guide, considering both stylistic and imaginative features of the poems. In selecting these poems for commentary Vendler chooses to exhibit many aspects of Dickinson’s work as a poet, “from her first-person poems to the poems of grand abstraction, from her ecstatic verses to her unparalleled depictions of emotional numbness, from her comic anecdotes to her painful poems of aftermath.” Included here are many expected favorites as well as more complex and less often anthologized poems. Taken together, Vendler’s selection reveals Emily Dickinson’s development as a poet, her astonishing range, and her revelation of what Wordsworth called “the history and science of feeling.” In accompanying commentaries Vendler offers a deeper acquaintance with Dickinson the writer, “the inventive conceiver and linguistic shaper of her perennial themes.” All of Dickinson’s preoccupations—death, religion, love, the natural world, the nature of thought—are explored here in detail, but Vendler always takes care to emphasize the poet’s startling imagination and the ingenuity of her linguistic invention. Whether exploring less familiar poems or favorites we thought we knew, Vendler reveals Dickinson as “a master” of a revolutionary verse-language of immediacy and power. Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries will be an indispensable reference work for students of Dickinson and readers of lyric poetry. Customer Reviews (3)
A Stunning Classic of Scholarship
Better than Churchill
Exceedingly Brilliant |
6. The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) by Emily Dickinson | |
Paperback: 400
Pages
(2003-10-12)
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Editorial Review Product Description Dickinson’s poetry is remarkable for its tightly controlled emotional and intellectual energy. The longest poem covers less than two pages. Yet in theme and tone her writing reaches for the sublime as it charts the landscape of the human soul. A true innovator, Dickinson experimented freely with conventional rhythm and meter, and often used dashes, off rhymes, and unusual metaphorstechniques that strongly influenced modern poetry. Dickinson’s idiosyncratic style, along with her deep resonance of thought and her observations about life and death, love and nature, and solitude and society, have firmly established her as one of America’s true poetic geniuses. Rachel Wetzsteon is Assistant Professor of English at William Paterson University. She has published two books of poems, The Other Stars and Home and Away. Customer Reviews (3)
Edited, but good for the price
A Travesty
A Great poet and a great intellectual: Beautiful words from a beautiful woman: |
7. Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds by Lyndall Gordon | |
Hardcover: 512
Pages
(2010-06-10)
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Extravagant to Extravagant
"Surgeons must be very careful/When they take the knife!"
A Great Tell All Bio - Best Since Louisa May Alcott
A satisfying pageturner about Emily Dickinson
A Cautionary Tale |
8. The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson (Cambridge Companions to Literature) | |
Paperback: 266
Pages
(2002-10-14)
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Celebrate 177 years of Emily Dickinson |
9. Poems by Emily Dickinson: third series by Emily Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd | |
Paperback: 222
Pages
(2010-09-06)
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10. Emily Dickinson: Selected Letters by Emily Dickinson | |
Paperback: 384
Pages
(1986-03-15)
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Essential Piece of the Dickinson Puzzle
Precious surviving fragments of a great oeuvre. Emily Dickinson was a great letter writer, in all senses of theword.In fact one gets the impression that she actually preferred writing to people, than meeting and conversing with them, and for her the arrival of a letter was a great event.A letter was something she looked forward to with keen anticipation, and which she savored to the full whenever one arrived. The present selection of letters represents only a small proportionof the letters Emily Dickinson actually wrote.She was an inveterate letter-writer, had many correspondents, and wrote thousands of letters.And peoplein those days collected letters just as today. Unfortunately it was the custom, whenever anyone died, to make a bonfire of all of their correspondence, probably because of its personal and confidentialnature.In this way thousands of pages of Emily Dickinson's writings have been lost to posterity, and we would know much more aboute the details of her day-to-day life, and be able to date her poems more accurately, if it hadn't been for thistragic loss. Just how great the loss is may be gaged by taking a look at the way Ellen Louise Hart and Martha Nell Smith have treated her letters in 'Open Me Carefully : Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson' (1998).Whereas Thomas Johnson prints all of ED's letters as straight prose, which of course leads us to read them as straight prose, Hart-Smith give us theirparticular letters as they actually appear in the original draft - not as continous lines of prose but as very short lines with numerous line breaks - in other words, as poetry. It would seem that at least some of ED's 'letters' are not so much letters as 'letter-poems,' and when read as poems produce a remarkable rangeof effects that are lost when all line breaks are removed and the 'letter' is regularized as straight prose.The loss of her letters now begins to look much more serious, for there seems to be a growing feeling among readers that her letters were every bit as great an artistic achievement as her poems. Given this, the present book becomes something that should interest all serious students of ED, although before reading it they might (if they haven't already) take at look at the Hart-Smith, and keep it in mind while reading the Johnson.One wonders how much poetry may be lurking unrecognized in the regularized lines of 'EmilyDickinson's Selected Letters.'
A letter like immortality If you are, like me, an Emily Dickinson's great admirer you will be genuinely drawn into this book. Emily Dickinson has bewitched and perplexed everyone with her extremely profound poetry disguised in apparent simplicity. However, in her book of letters we uncover the woman (and not the author) behind her work, whose main assets were acute sensitivity and lovingness. This collection, unlike other books of the genre, such as Elizabeth Bishop's One Art or Keats's book of letters, do not reveal much of her poetry, as her mental struggle with the work, her intentions, or choice of words. Even so, the reader is allowed into her family relationships, into her care and love for her few friends, and above all into her deep-set feeling of solitude. Besides, throughout her letters she discloses her main existential concerns, which are inevitably reflected in her poems. This book makes it possible to discover the books she read and the ones that offered her the greatest pleasure. As the collection includes from her juvenile writings to her latest letters when already living in social "exile," they form a most engrossing reading, with the characteristics of an autobiography, without the intention by the author to write one. In her very words, "my letter as a bee, goes laden." ... Read more |
11. The Life of Emily Dickinson by Richard B. Sewall | |
Paperback: 924
Pages
(1998-07-15)
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Muddy waters
Agreat book!
Not really a biography
Find an editor
Great for College Courses |
12. My Emily Dickinson (New Directions Paperbook) by Susan Howe | |
Paperback: 160
Pages
(2007-11-15)
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Oddly composed, but with a few fine opals inside...
My Emily Dickinson
Very Interesting Take
If you think you know Emily... Howe points out how Dickinson'spoetry has been overlooked in light of her character and biography. Itseems that in the 19th century, it was remarkable for a woman to be a poetat all, let alone write original, rebellious, and quite modern poetry.Hence, the work itself, though enjoyed by schoolchildren all over America,has been little understood. Delving into Dickinson's reading lists, hernotes and letters, and analyzing a few poems, Howe explores the workings ofan intricate mind. She uncovers connections between Dickinson and theBrownings, the Brontes, and James Fenimore Cooper, and she shows howseemingly submissive, soft spoken poetic lines are actually rebellious andeven at times angry. What Howe does not do is confuse the image of"The Belle of Amhearst" with the vital workings of the mind ofthis remarkable woman. This book is an enjoyable read filled with Howe'sadmiration for her artistic predecessor and written in straightforwardlanguage, not literary jargon--a tribute from one poet to another. Foranyone who enjoys Emily Dickinson's poetry, it is not to be missed. ... Read more |
13. White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson by Brenda Wineapple | |
Paperback: 432
Pages
(2009-12-01)
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A beautiful portrait of Emily Dickinson, the passionate seductive poet of Amherst
An exceptional book that belongs in any personal library
A First Class Scholarly Work And Vastly Inspirational!
White Heat is an excellent exploration of the poetry of Emily Dickinson and her relationship with TW Higginson
very interesting! |
14. Final Harvest: Poems by Emily Dickinson | |
Paperback: 352
Pages
(1964-01-30)
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Best collection of Emily Dickinson's poems
The special value of a volume of this kind
The Loaded Gun Which
Perhaps we are looking at the wrong aspects... This is, of course, an abridged collection.As such, we are forced to rely on the opinion of another.Granted this is common enough with poetry collections, but that doesn't change the very nature of each person having differing interests.There is no way to know if the ones he leaves out are just as good or even better, from each individuals perspective, without going to more comprehensive texts. Regardless, I do have one gripe with this book that is unrelated to the above pettiness.The method of dating each poem seems silly to me.The reason is that they are all claimed to be from one of several (if memory serves 3) years separated out over several decades.That and there are two listings of dates for each poem, which I don't recall off hand why they did that, and it may serve some purpose, but it's not useful information if when these poems were written can only be pinned down to plus or minus five-ten years.I can't blame Johnson for this as I imagine that is as close as is known, but, by the same token, the dates could have been left out so that it doesn't detract from the actual poetry. All in all I would recomend this book, but I might suggest getting a more complete version instead (so long as it is unedited--Emily hated it when people wanted to edit her poems, and I think that we should respect that).
Strong Medicine |
15. The Emily Dickinson Handbook | |
Paperback: 480
Pages
(2005-04-30)
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An Emily Update
Don't pass this one up! It's a gem! For anyone who is seriously interested in Emily Dickinson, this is a marvelous book that provides up-to-date information about her life and works, her letters and manuscripts, the cultural climate of her age, her reception and influence, and what is going on in current Dickinson scholarship. The book's 22 essays have been distributed in eight sections : Introduction; Biography; Historical Context; The Manuscripts; The Letters; Dickinson's Poetics; Reception and Influence; New Directions in Dickinson Scholarship. Although I've read many critical collections, several of which were devoted exclusively to Dickinson, I can't remember ever having been so impressed. Usually an anthology will hold one or two outstanding contributions, with the rest being humdrum and of little real interest, but here pretty well all of them are outstanding, and I found only one that struck me as being both pretentious and obscure. I was especially impressed by Robert Weisbuch's brilliant 'Prisming Dickinson, or Gathering Paradise by Letting Go,' by Josef Raab's 'The Metapoetic Element in Dickinson,' by Martha Nell Smith's 'Dickinson's Manuscripts,' by Paul Crumbley's 'Dickinson's Dialogic Voice,' by Roland Hagenbuchle's 'Dickinson and Literary Theory,' and in fact by many others. So much so that this seems to me the single most valuable book on Dickinson that I've ever seen, and the one from which I've learned most and continue to learn. It really is that good. The book is bound in a full strong cloth, stitched, beautifully printed on excellent strong smooth ivory-tinted paper, has clearly been designed to withstand the heavy use it will be getting, and is excellent value for money. No serious student of Emily Dickinson should be without it. Weisbuch's essay, serving as it does to provide one with a whole new way of understanding ED, is pretty well worth the price of the book itself. So don't pass this one up! It's a gem!
Do yourself a favor |
16. Poetry for Young People: Emily Dickinson | |
Paperback: 48
Pages
(2008-04-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Bolin’s four-page introduction describes and explains Emily Dickinson’s odd lifestyle and creative productivity...prettily colored watercolors.”School Library Journal Customer Reviews (8)
Poetry for Young People
Poetry and Art
Page turning poetry
THIS IS ANOTHER GREAT ADDITION TO A WONDERFUL SERIES
Brandon's thoughts on Emily Dickinson |
17. The Passion of Emily Dickinson by Judith Farr | |
Paperback: 416
Pages
(1998-07-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description "How tame and manageable are the emotions of our bards, how placid and literary their allusions!" complained essayist T. W. Higginson in the Atlantic Monthly in 1870. "The American poet of passion is yet to come." He was, of course, unaware of the great erotic love poems such as "Wild Nights--Wild Nights!" and "Struck was I, nor yet by Lightning" being privately written by his reclusive friend Emily Dickinson. In a profound new analysis of Dickinson's life and work, Judith Farr explores the desire, suffering, exultation, spiritual rapture, and intense dedication to art that characterize Dickinson's poems, and deciphers their many complex and witty references to texts and paintings of the day. In The Passion of Emily Dickinson the poet emerges, not as a cryptic proto-modern or a victim of female repression, but as a cultivated mid-Victorian in whom the romanticism of Emerson and the American landscape painters found bold expression. Dickinson wrote two distinct cycles of love poetry, argues Farr, one for her sister-in-law Sue and one for the mysterious "Master," here convincingly identified as Samuel Bowles, a friend of the family. For each of these intimates, Dickinson crafted personalized metaphoric codes drawn from her reading. Calling books her "Kinsmen of the Shelf," she refracted elements of Jane Eyre, Antony and Cleopatra, Tennyson's Maud, De Quincey's Confessions, and key biblical passages into her writing. And, to a previously unexplored degree, Dickinson also quoted the strategies and subject matter of popular Hudson River, Luminist, and Pre-Raphaelite paintings, notably Thomas Cole's Voyage of Life and Frederic Edwin Church's Heart of the Andes. Involved in the delicate process of both expressing and disguising her passion, Dickinson incorporated these sources in an original and sophisticated manner. Farr's superb readings of the poems and letters call on neglected archival material and on magazines, books, and paintings owned by the Dickinsons. Viewed as part of a finely articulated tradition of Victorian iconography, Dickinson's interest in the fate of the soul after death, her seclusion, her fascination with landscape's mystical content, her quest for honor and immortality through art, and most of all her very human passions become less enigmatic. Farr tells the story of a poet and her time. Customer Reviews (3)
Well Worth Reading
Fascinating Interpretation
And all my House aglow (638) Judith Farr has wrought a miracle in bringing ED to me so compellingly (thank you, Judith). ... Read more |
18. Poems by Emily Dickinson | |
Paperback: 402
Pages
(2010-01-11)
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Good Poetry in almost good editions
"Exultation is the going of an inland soulto sea"
Why Do The Greatest Poets Write About Death?
An innovative poet
A prism which captures the white light of reality. It is the rich suggestiveness of her poems, a suggestiveness which generates an incredible range of meanings, that prevents us from ever being able to say (to continue the metaphor) that a given poem is 'about red' or 'about blue,' because her poems, as US critic Robert Weisbuch has observed, are in fact about everything. This is what makes her so unique, and this is why she appeals to every kind of reader, and even to children. The present book, which has been edited by Brenda Hillman, gives us accurate texts of the poems in a 150-page selection taken from the authoritative variorum edition of Thomas H. Johnson, the well-known Dickinson scholar who worked many years to establish the correct texts. The book is beautifully printed in two-colors on excellent paper, and in a tiny format which is perfect for the pocket.It would in fact make a very nice gift.You'd be making a gift of poetry which is one of the wonders of the world. ... Read more |
19. Emily Dickinsons Poems by Emily Dickinson | |
Paperback:
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(1962)
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"Complete" should be complete.
Easy to navigate & read ...
Functional, but not close to urtext |
20. The Diary of Emily Dickinson by Jamie Fuller | |
Hardcover: 240
Pages
(2000-10-01)
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Deceptive title and even more deceptive content!
from a person who is in her own way a Dickinson scholar... Unless literary history has changed mightilywhile I, like a modern Rip Van Winkle, slept right through it, the fact isthat IF Emily Dickinson ever kept a diary or journal, it was eithersuppressed or destroyed. Probably the latter, by the same friends andfamily members who heavily edited (and had the audacity to change Emily'swords in) the first printings of her poems. You will note, if you readthe reader reviews posted here before this one, that two out of threeamazon.com readers believed they were reading a diary actually written byEmily Dickinson herself. I am frankly distressed by the publication of abook that does not make its fictional nature more obvious and upfront.
It's a great work of HISTORICAL FICTION
To get to know the mind of one of America's greatest poet
Beautiful as anything |
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