EMILY DICKINSON'S COMPLETE WORKS OF POETRY [Authoritative Nook Edition] THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLING COLLECTION OF POETRY by EMILY DICKINSON The Complete Works Collection of Emily Dickinson's Complete and Unabridged Poetry Nook NOOKBook Edition

EMILY DICKINSON'S COMPLETE WORKS OF POETRY [Authoritative Nook Edition] THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLING COLLECTION OF POETRY by EMILY DICKINSON The Complete Works Collection of Emily Dickinson's Complete and Unabridged Poetry Nook NOOKBook Edition

EMILY DICKINSON'S COMPLETE WORKS OF POETRY [Authoritative Nook Edition] THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLING COLLECTION OF POETRY by EMILY DICKINSON The Complete Works Collection of Emily Dickinson's Complete and Unabridged Poetry Nook NOOKBook Edition

EMILY DICKINSON'S COMPLETE WORKS OF POETRY [Authoritative Nook Edition] THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLING COLLECTION OF POETRY by EMILY DICKINSON The Complete Works Collection of Emily Dickinson's Complete and Unabridged Poetry Nook NOOKBook Edition

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EMILY DICKINSON'S COMPLETE WORKS OF POETRY
[Authoritative Nook Edition]

THE WORLDWIDE BESTSELLING COLLECTION OF POETRY by EMILY DICKINSON

The Complete Works Collection of Emily Dickinson's Complete and Unabridged Poetry
Nook NOOKBook Edition

EXCERPTS

"Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.
Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can tell the definition,
So clear, of victory,
As he, defeated, dying,
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Break, agonized and clear!"

"They shut me up in Prose –
As when a little Girl
They put me in the Closet –
Because they liked me "still" –
Still! Could themself have peeped –
And seen my Brain – go round –
They might as wise have lodged a Bird
For Treason – in the Pound –"

"A solemn thing – it was – I said –
A Woman – White – to be –
And wear – if God should count me fit –
Her blameless mystery –"

"Though the great Waters sleep,
That they are still the Deep,
We cannot doubt –
No vacillating God
Ignited this Abode
To put it out –"

Product Details

BN ID: 2940014637725
Publisher: The Complete Works Collection
Publication date: 12/05/2012
Series: The Complete Works Collection
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Sales rank: 374,450
File size: 631 KB

About the Author

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Thought of as an eccentric by the locals, she became known for her penchant for white clothing and her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, even leave her room. Most of her friendships were therefore carried out by correspondence.

Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation. Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends.

Although most of her acquaintances were probably aware of Dickinson's writing, it was not until after her death in 1886—when Lavinia, Emily's younger sister, discovered her cache of poems—that the breadth of Dickinson's work became apparent. Her first collection of poetry was published in 1890 by personal acquaintances Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd, both of whom heavily edited the content. A complete and mostly unaltered collection of her poetry became available for the first time in 1955 when The Poems of Emily Dickinson was published by scholar Thomas H. Johnson. Despite unfavorable reviews and skepticism of her literary prowess during the late 19th and early 20th century, critics now consider Dickinson to be a major American poet.
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