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A Choice of Emily Dickinson's Verse

A Choice of Emily Dickinson's Verse( )
Author: Dickinson, Emily
Editor: Hughes, Ted
ISBN:978-0-571-08218-6
Publication Date:Jan 1968
Publisher:Faber & Faber, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $11.95
Book Description:

Writing apart from the mainstream of nineteenth-century poetry Emily Dickinson created a language of her own, and her work is both very varied and very consistent in its strength and charm. As Ted Hughes says in his Introduction, 'it is impossible to exhaust the unique art and pleasures of her poetic talent'; for this selection (based entirely on the original texts) he has chosen the pieces he likes best.

Book Details
Pages:80
Detailed Subjects: Poetry / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):4.914 x 7.722 x 0.234 Inches
Book Weight:0.812 Pounds
Author Biography
Dickinson, Emily. (Author)
Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on December 10, 1830. Although one of America's most acclaimed poets, the bulk of her work was not published until well after her death on May 15, 1886. The few poems published in her lifetime were not received with any great fanfare. After her death, Dickinson's sister Lavinia found over 1,700 poems Emily had written and stashed away in a drawer -- the accumulation of a life's obsession with words. Critics have agreed that Dickinson's poetry was well ahead of its time. Today she is considered one of the best poets of the English language.

Except for a year spent at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, Dickinson spent her entire life in the family home in Amherst, Massachusetts. She never married and began to withdraw from society, eventually becoming a recluse.

Dickinson's poetry engages the reader and requires his or her participation. Full of highly charged metaphors, her free verse and choice of words are best understood when read aloud. Dickinson's punctuation and capitalization, not orthodox by Victorian standards and called "spasmodic" by her critics, give greater emphasis to her meanings.

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