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The complete poems of Emily Dickinson

The only edition currently available that contains all of Dickinson's poems. The works were originally gathered by editor Johnson and published in a three-volume set in 1955.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886 (Author)
Other Authors:	Johnson, Thomas Herbert (Editor)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Boston : Little, Brown and Company, [1960]
Subjects:	American poetry > Women authors > 19th century. Poetry.
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Summary:	The only edition currently available that contains all of Dickinson's poems. The works were originally gathered by editor Johnson and published in a three-volume set in 1955.
Item Description:	"A Back Bay book". The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Arden Eversmeyer Collection.
Physical Description:	xiii, 770 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 719-720) and indexes.
ISBN:	9780316184137 0316184136 9780316184144 0316184144 9781439571835 143957183X
Place of Publication:	United States -- Massachusetts -- Boston, -- publication place.
Author Notes:	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. (Bowker Author Biography)