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Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson( )
Author: Dickinson, Emily
Series title:Barnes and Noble Collectible Editions Ser.
ISBN:978-1-4351-6257-0
Publication Date:May 2016
Publisher:Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
Imprint:Fall River
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $3.99
Book Description:

Although Emily Dickinson wrote nearly 2,000 poems, only a handful were ever published in her lifetime, and those anonymously. Today, she is recognized as one of the most important American poets of the nineteenth century, one whose unconventional use of language and rhyme anticipated the break with tradition of much modern poetry written after it.   The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson collects more than 150 of Dickinsons brief but...
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Pages:128
Detailed Subjects: Poetry / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):4 x 7 Inches
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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