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Fifty Poems of Emily Dickinson by Alfre Woodard, Cheryl Ladd, Daphne Zuniga, Emily Dickinson, Glenda Jackson (1997, Compact Disc) 
Fifty Poems of Emily Dickinson by Alfre Woodard, Cheryl Ladd, Daphne Zuniga, Emily Dickinson, Glenda Jackson (1997, Compact Disc)
Author: Alfre Woodard, Cheryl Ladd, Daphne Zuniga, Emily Dickinson, Glenda Jackson
Publisher: New Star Media Inc
Publication Date: 1997-02-01
Language: English
Format: Audio
ISBN-10: 0787111961
ISBN-13: 9780787111960
Product ID: EPID906034
Description: Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the man of letters to whom Emily Dickinson first entrusted her poems, was dumbfounded by them, and asked, "What place ought to be assigned in literature to what is so remarkable, yet so elusive of criticism?" ...
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the man of letters to whom Emily Dickinson first entrusted her poems, was dumbfounded by them, and asked, "What place ought to be assigned in literature to what is so remarkable, yet so elusive of criticism?" His question was answered only after Dickinson's death in 1886: she is now considered one of America's greatest poets. Her terse, oblique, visionary poems--only 10 of which were published in her lifetime--have almost no relation to the conventions of the second half of the 19th century, when they were written. The poems play adventurously with meter and rhyme and are completely free of the saccharine sentiments popular at the time. Irreverent, frank, eccentric, and deeply personal, Dickinson's poetry remains fresh and unique, and is always scrupulously in search of truth. As Dickinson put it herself: "Much Madness is divinest Sense--/To a discerning Eye..."

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Publication Date:1997-02-01

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