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Name: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Author: Emily Dickinson
Year: 1890
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Classic, Poetry

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ISBNs:
9780316184137
0316184136

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 posthumously 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
, 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
, brings together the original texts of all 1,775 poems that Emily Dickinson wrote.