The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

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the Collected Poems Of Emily Dickinson, By Emily Dickinson, Is Part Of The barnes & Noble Classics series, Which Offers Quality Editions At Affordable Prices To The Student And The General Reader, Including New Scholarship, Thoughtful Design, And Pages Of Carefully Crafted Extras. Here Are Some Of The Remarkable Features Of barnes & Noble Classics:

• new Introductions Commissioned From Today's Top Writers And Scholars
• biographies Of The Authors
• chronologies Of Contemporary Historical, Biographical, And Cultural Events
• footnotes And Endnotes
• selective Discussions Of Imitations, Parodies, Poems, Books, Plays, Paintings, Operas, Statuary, And Films Inspired By The Work
• comments By Other Famous Authors
• study Questions To Challenge The Reader's Viewpoints And Expectations
• bibliographies For Further Reading
• indices & Glossaries, When Appropriate

all Editions Are Beautifully Designed And Are Printed To Superior Specifications; Some Include Illustrations Of Historical Interest. barnes & Noble Classics pulls Together A Constellation Of Influences—biographical, Historical, And Literary—to Enrich Each Reader's Understanding Of These Enduring Works.



born In Amherst, Massachusetts In 1830, Dickinson Began Life As An Energetic, Outgoing Young Woman Who Excelled As A Student. However, In Her Mid-twenties She Began To Grow Reclusive, And Eventually She Rarely Descended From Her Room In Her Father’s House. She Spent Most Of Her Time Working On Her Poetry, Largely Without Encouragement Or Real Interest From Her Family And Peers, And Died At Age Fifty-five. Only A Handful Of Her 1,775 Poems Had Been Published During Her Lifetime. When Her Poems Finally Appeared After Her Death, Readers Immediately Recognized An Artist Whose Immense Depth And Stylistic Complexities Would One Day Make Her The Most Widely Recognized Female Poet To Write In The English Language.

dickinson’s Poetry Is Remarkable For Its Tightly Controlled Emotional And Intellectual Energy. The Longest Poem Covers Less Than Two Pages. Yet In Theme And Tone Her Writing Reaches For The Sublime As It Charts The Landscape Of The Human Soul. A True Innovator, Dickinson Experimented Freely With Conventional Rhythm And Meter, And Often Used Dashes, Off Rhymes, And Unusual Metaphors—techniques That Strongly Influenced Modern Poetry. Dickinson’s Idiosyncratic Style, Along With Her Deep Resonance Of Thought And Her Observations About Life And Death, Love And Nature, And Solitude And Society, Have Firmly Established Her As One Of America’s True Poetic Geniuses.

includes An Index Of First Lines.

rachel Wetzsteon Is Assistant Professor Of English At William Paterson University. She Has Published Two Books Of Poems, the Other Stars And home And Away.

SUMMARY: The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, by Emily Dickinson, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences—biographical, historical, and literary—to enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830, Dickinson began life as an energetic, outgoing young woman who excelled as a student. However, in her mid-twenties she began to grow reclusive, and eventually she rarely descended from her room in her father’s house. She spent most of her time working on her poetry, largely without encouragement or real interest from her family and peers, and died at age fifty-five. Only a handful of her 1,775 poems had been published during her lifetime. When her poems finally appeared after her death, readers immediately recognized an artist whose immense depth and stylistic complexities would one day make her the most widely recognized female poet to write in the English language. Dickinson’s poetry is remarkable for its tightly controlled emotional and intellectual energy. The longest poem covers less than two pages. Yet in theme and tone her writing reaches for the sublime as it charts the landscape of the human soul. A true innovator, Dickinson experimented freely with conventional rhythm and meter, and often used dashes, off rhymes, and unusual metaphors—techniques that strongly influenced modern poetry. Dickinson’s idiosyncratic style, along with her deep resonance of thought and her observations about life and death, love and nature, and solitude and society, have firmly established her as one of America’s true poetic geniuses.Includes an index of first lines.Rachel Wetzsteon is Assistant Professor of English at William Paterson University. She has published two books of poems, The Other Stars and Home and Away. Emily Dickinson lived as a recluse in Amherst, Massachusetts, dedicating herself to writing a "letter to the world" - the 1,775 poems left unpublished at her death in 1886. Today Dickinson stands in the front rank of American poets. This Modern Library edition presents the more than four hundred poems that were published between Dickinson's death and 1900. They express her concepts of life and death, of love and nature, and of what Henry James called "the landscape of the soul.". "No one can read these poems...without perceiving that he is not so much reading as being spoken to," observed Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Archibald MacLeish. "There is a curious energy in the words and a tone like no other most of us have ever heard....I know no poems in which the double structure of words as sounds and words as meanings - that curious relationship of the logically unrelated - will be found, on right reading, to be more comprehensive than it is in the poems of Emily Dickinson." This selection brings together over 500 of Dickinson's nearly 1,800 poems. Includes a chronology of Dickinson's life and an essay offering background information on her works