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Poems, Series 1 by Emily Dickinson (2004, Paperback) 
Poems, Series 1 by Emily Dickinson (2004, Paperback)

 
Poems, Series 1 by Emily Dickinson (2004, Paperback)

Publisher: 1st World Library
Publication Date: 2004-09-30
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 159540015X
ISBN-13: 9781595400154
Product ID: EPID43547975
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:2004-09-30

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Length:81 pages
Height:8.5 in
Width:5.5 in
Thickness:0.2 in
Weight:4.8 oz

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