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.

"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"--

Although Emily Dickinson wrote nearly 2,000 poems, only a handful were ever published in her lifetime, and those anonymously. Today, she is recognized as one of the most important American poets of the nineteenth century, one whose unconventional use of language and rhyme anticipated the break with tradition of much modern poetry written after it. The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson collects more than 150 of Dickinsons brief but memorable poems....

A generous selection of the great American poet's verse, presented in a pocket edition.

A collection of seventy-eight poems which highlight the seasons, the passage of time, and living life itself and which were written by one of America's foremost poets.

An illustrated collection of poems by an outstanding 19th-century American poet whose works were published posthumously.