The Complete Poems Of Emily Dickinson
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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Few voices in American literary history resonate with such quiet devastation as Emily Dickinson's — a reclusive genius who, from her bedroom in Amherst, Massachusetts, rewrote the rules of poetry with a dash, a slant rhyme, and an unflinching gaze into the abyss of mortality, love, and the divine. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, meticulously edited by Thomas H. Johnson, gathers all 1,775 of her poems into a single authoritative volume, presenting for the first time a definitive canon drawn from her original manuscripts, restoring the unconventional punctuation and capitalisation she intended. Dickinson's poetry is a universe unto itself — compressed, paradoxical, and shimmering with hidden depths — chronicling the interior life of a woman who chose solitude as her stage and eternity as her subject. Johnson's scholarly editorship illuminates the structural daring and emotional intensity that had long been obscured by earlier, heavily amended editions. Whether confronting death with eerie calm, dissecting the nature of consciousness, or capturing a hummingbird in mid-flight, Dickinson's verse continues to startle and astonish. This essential collection remains the gold standard for any reader who wishes to encounter one of literature's most singular minds — unfiltered, undiluted, and utterly alive.
Author: Emily Dickinson
Format: Paperback
Genre: Poetry
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few voices in American literary history resonate with such quiet devastation as Emily Dickinson's — a reclusive genius who, from her bedroom in Amherst, Massachusetts, rewrote the rules of poetry with a dash, a slant rhyme, and an unflinching gaze into the abyss of mortality, love, and the divine. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, meticulously edited by Thomas H. Johnson, gathers all 1,775 of her poems into a single authoritative volume, presenting for the first time a definitive canon drawn from her original manuscripts, restoring the unconventional punctuation and capitalisation she intended. Dickinson's poetry is a universe unto itself — compressed, paradoxical, and shimmering with hidden depths — chronicling the interior life of a woman who chose solitude as her stage and eternity as her subject. Johnson's scholarly editorship illuminates the structural daring and emotional intensity that had long been obscured by earlier, heavily amended editions. Whether confronting death with eerie calm, dissecting the nature of consciousness, or capturing a hummingbird in mid-flight, Dickinson's verse continues to startle and astonish. This essential collection remains the gold standard for any reader who wishes to encounter one of literature's most singular minds — unfiltered, undiluted, and utterly alive.