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Collected Poems (AmazonClassics Edition)

By: Emily Dickinson
Narrated by: Karen Peakes
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Through her transcendent imagery, distinct punctuation, experimental slant rhyme, and wordplay, Emily Dickinson set herself apart from every other poet of her time. These essential works - thematically divided into poems on life, nature, love, and time and eternity - reveal a keen, humorous observer whose art, like the artist herself, defied tradition.

Originally published in three volumes between 1890 and 1891, this collection established Dickinson as a literary icon years after her death. Also included in this edition is The Single Hound, a once-lost volume of poetry edited by her niece, who was instrumental in establishing her aunt as the most widely read poet in the English language.

Revised edition: Previously published as The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, this edition of Collected Poems (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions.

Public Domain (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Poetry Themes & Styles United States World Literature Witty Comedy Classic Poetry
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This is a collection published after Dickinson’s death by Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson. It appeared in three successive volumes between 1890 and 1896. The editors claimed that they only made minor corrections but in fact Dickinson’s punctuation was drastically modified and many changes were made to the actual texts. It wasn’t until the major 1954 edition by Thomas H. Johnson that all the 1775 poems were available in their original form.

However, that edition in the eight-teen nineties did reveal that a very great American poet had lived in seclusion and that very little of her work had been read. Thus, free Kindle Unlimited edition provides a reasonable introduction to Dickinson’s poetry and it can be obtained free from Project Gutenberg and other sources as well.

For quite a small fee one can add a very fine Audible performance of the book by Karen Peakes. She reads with marvellous variations in tone and feeling. Often she infused a sense of life and energy that made be stop and listen again.

Emily Dickinson came to life.

An early version of Dickinson’s Poetry

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Nice female recording and a worthy progression and a good companion to the Penguin edition

A bargain

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