The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson -- Emily Dickinson

<b>This comprehensive and authoritative collection of all 1,775 poems by Emily Dickinson is an essential volume for all lovers of American literature.</b> Only eleven of Emily Dickinson's poems were published prior to her death in 1886; the startling originality of her work doomed it to obscurity in her lifetime. Early posthumous published collections -- some of them featuring liberally "edited" versions of the poems -- did not fully and accurately represent Dickinson's bold experiments in prosody, her tragic vision, and the range of her intellectual and emotional explorations. Not until the 1955 publication of <i>The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson</i>, a three-volume critical edition compiled by Thomas H. Johnson, were readers able for the first time to assess, understand, and appreciate the whole of Dickinson's extraordinary poetic genius. This book, a distillation of the three-volume <i>Complete Poems</i>, brings together the original texts of all 1,775 poems that Emily Dickinson wrote. <b>"With its chronological arrangement of the poems, this volume becomes more than just a collection; it is at the same time a poetic biography of the thoughts and feelings of a woman whose beauty was deep and lasting." </b><b>--</b><b><i>San Francisco Chronicle</i></b><br><br><b>Author:</b> Emily Dickinson<br><b>Publisher:</b> Back Bay Books<br><b>Published:</b> 01/30/1976<br><b>Pages:</b> 784<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 1.50lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.20h x 5.40w x 2