Order History
Premium Membership & Rewards
Help Center / FAQ
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Paperback
$24.99
1|
Premium Members save an extra 10% and all Members collect stamps to save with Rewards. 10 stamps = $5.Learn More
Select a store to view item availability.
Notes From Your Bookseller
It’s hard to believe that only 11 of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published in her lifetime. A shining star way ahead of her contemporaries. We know she would have gone viral if she had access to Twitter. Short, first-person point-of-view poems that were ripe for understanding the human condition. We are jealous of anyone getting to read Dickinson for the first time.
This comprehensive and authoritative collection of all 1,775 poems by Emily Dickinson is an essential volume for all lovers of American literature.
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 posthumous published collections — some of them featuring liberally "edited" versions of the poems — did not fully and accurately represent Dickinson's bold experiments in prosody,...
You May Also Like
From the B&N Reads Blog
Bookseller Jules and the Case for Poetry Month
Ah, Poetry Month! Why are you but one time a year? Instead of thinking about it as only a month-long celebration, why not think of it as a 30-day introduction to a lifetime of joy, heartbreak, passion and exhalation? The beauty of the genre can (and should) be heard aloud. What is the written word […]
Read More