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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780345472410
ISBN: 0345472411
Label: Modern Library
Manufacturer: Modern Library
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: September 28, 2004
Publisher: Modern Library
Release Date: September 28, 2004
Sales Rank: 93589
Studio: Modern Library
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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as a recluse in Amherst, Massachusetts, dedicating herself to writing a 'letter to the world'--the 1,775 poems left unpublished at her death in 1886.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.'
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Amazon.com 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.
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Rating:  - Sanitized Emily
Emily Dickinson is a genius and great poet, but this isn't the way to experience her work. Dickinson's distinctive punctuation and capitalization are "corrected"; the effect is maybe a smoother read but one far less rich in implications and possibilities. The division of the poems employed here , and in many of the older collections ("Life," "Nature," "Love," "Time and Eternity") are not Dickinson's, and are not very useful in experiencing the poems. In my opinion, this volume omits many of Emily's ... Read More
Rating: - This isn't quite the letter Emily was writing to the world...
I picked up this selection of Dickinson's poems on a whim because I am a huge fan of her poetry--it simply reaches to your very soul and leaves you rapt in awe. However--I must say--that I am sorely disappointed with this edition of selected poems. As one of the other reviewers has stated, this edition has been greatly tampered with--the editors have reworked the punctuation and capitalization stylistic genius of Dickinson and bastardized it to accommodate the modern reader--but, honestly, to do this ... Read More
Rating:  - You gotta buy this book.
This book is awesome! Everyone should buy it.
Rating:  - This is not really the edition you want.
I don't doubt that it's possible to enjoy Emily Dickinson's poems in editions like this. But you should be aware that you are not really reading what she wrote. You are reading what earlier editors _wish_ she had written - a sort of 'tidied-up' and regularized version, the badly tampered-with-text of a genius by those who weren't.
In a way, the situation is a bit like the one that prevails with regard to food. Would you rather eat natural food or genetically modified food? Maybe the modified ... Read More
Rating: - This is not really the edition you want.
I don't doubt that it's possible to enjoy Emily Dickinson's poems in editions like this. But you should be aware that you are not really reading what she wrote. You are reading what earlier editors _wish_ she had written - a sort of 'tidied-up' and regularized version, the badly tampered-with-text of a genius by those who weren't.
In a way, the situation is a bit like the one that prevails with regard to food. Would you rather eat natural food or genetically modified food? Maybe the modified ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780345472410
ISBN: 0345472411
Label: Modern Library
Manufacturer: Modern Library
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: September 28, 2004
Publisher: Modern Library
Release Date: September 28, 2004
Sales Rank: 93589
Studio: Modern Library