Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Book Review: mother from another planet
Summary: 5 Stars
Under a surface of innocence, Emily Dickinson's witty, acerbic, playful & profound poems are America's wisest contribution to poetry. Sometimes she riddles, sometimes she puns--she puns not only in ambiguous word choice, but also in ideas and topics. Her small gems are the unique response of genius to the world, a dialogue on the most inspiring level--and from a given woman's experience, too. But I think Dickinson surpasses the merely human--she was sent from another planet to rescue us from Whitmanesque excesses.Book Review: Great Job
Summary: 5 Stars
Thanks for the fast payment. I will mail the Tabs tomorrow. I have left positive feedback.Book Review: Want to start reading poetry?
Summary: 5 Stars
Emily is a great place to begin a study and enjoyment of poetry. This book has it all.Book Review: Restores What Should Never Have Been Tampered With At All
Summary: 5 Stars
The words of America's greatest nineteenth-century poet stand for themselves---when they are allowed to be read as written---so I'll offer no comment on them, merely say in all humility that I am glad to live in an era when Dickinson's poems are available to be read as she wrote them. If you're serious about wanting to read the life-altering works of this great, quiet voice, seek out this volume, or another that features her work in its original, purest form.Book Review: You buy this only if you know the REAL poems
Summary: 3 Stars
Amazingly enough, some of her UNEDITED poems are just recently being published....Although they're still hard to find. Anyone who has read her biography will understand why her unedited writings do not exist until at least 2005. And what has been promised is still not altogether available, as far as I can find.
I buy the earliest editions of her poetry (and biographies) because I find her connection with Emily Bronte beyond fascinating. Yet, I can't find a book on the subject. I think Dickinson was extremely interested in the writings and the person who was Emily Bronte. But all she had to go on at the time was Mrs. Gaskell's biography of Charlotte Bronte. And I'd appreciate it if someone would tell me about a book that plunges into this vortex, because I've yet to find one. Dickinson had a poem read at her funeral that she THOUGHT Emily Bronte had written. Well, Emily Bronte surely did, but we'll never know how much Charlotte edited it. A word here and there....
Meanwhile, people like me are reading the edited poems and trying to see them through the eyes of people like Emily Dickinson who didn't have the advantage of knowing the writings had been edited.
Round and 'round we go, eh?