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The Letters of Emily Dickinson

The Letters of Emily Dickinson( )
Author: Dickinson, Emily
Editor: Miller, Cristanne
Mitchell, Domhnall
ISBN:978-0-674-98297-0
Publication Date:Apr 2024
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Imprint:Belknap Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $49.95
Book Description:

The Letters of Emily Dickinson collects, redates, and recontextualizes all of the poet's extant letters, including dozens newly discovered or never before anthologized. Insightful annotations emphasize not the reclusive poet of myth but rather an artist firmly embedded in the political and literary currents of her time.

Book Details
Pages:976
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.125 x 9.25 x 1.8 Inches
Book Weight:2.9 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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