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: A Must for American Lit. teachers
Summary: 5 Stars
Only when I started a unit on Emily Dickinson did I notice discrepancies between various published versions of her poems. For example, some student anthologies preserved her quirky capitalizations, others didn't. One day a student reading from her own book said her version of "The Soul selects her own Society" had an entirely different verb in the fourth line. It was then I discovered that Dickinson's editors had betrayed her by "correcting" her grammar and diction. That very afternoon I ordered this book which restores her poems to their original and better state. I should add the book is beautifully printed, solidly bound, and an excellent value. Book Review: Supremely Soulful
Summary: 5 Stars
Pretty much an autodidact at poetry (thus having utterly no pretense to credentials with which to browbeat those with different views) I've come to regard Emily as one of the very best poets of all time and, among other things, one of the very best of Christian theologians. Notwithstanding what various far better credentialed experts have pronounced to the contrary, Emily was indeed a Christian, though quite solitary, mystical, and hardly conventional. Take for example (J) 823:
Not that We did, shall be the test
When Act and Will are done
But what Our Lord infers We would
Had We diviner been --
Is this not an exquisite (and ultra-polysemic) four line sermon on discipleship, grace, incarnation, and judgment/salvation?
Very few have written of the soul as profoundly, beautifully,and economically as Emily. Plato would have marvelled at this girl.
Whoever first referred to her as a "nun" described her much better than many moderns who seem preoccupied with her secret loves and lovers, sexual preferences, etc. See No. 817 for example.
To decode Emily, I bought the Noah Webster 1823 American English Dictionary. It along with the Bible, the poetry of George Herbert, and the classical writers and philosophers are, for me, essential to filling in the various matrices of meaning that are her poems. Even then, many poems remain obscure and one must fortuitously discover tidbits from history, (then) current events, etc. to occasionally render them comprehensible. Understanding Emily could take a lifetime of work and pleasure.
This edition is great because it is essentially faithful to how Emily actually recorded her poems. With her, as everyone knows, the seemingly eccentric punctuation, capital letters, and other quirks are significant.
Book Review: Another Great Poet..
Summary: 5 Stars
Emily Dickinson was a wonderful poet along with Poe...Her poems were mostly about depression, and death. Althought her poems werent found till after she died she still wrote beautiful poems that just want to make you cry. Book Review: After all this time...
Summary: 5 Stars
here is a voice undimmed. A voice so rare it's no wonder that the life lived behind it was as it was. Perfect voice, perfect life. Like others here, I too see there's no need to "review" a thing like Emily. I merely take this opportunity in this new medium to state that Emily lived in Gnosis...this is her mysterious subject. Here is where she becomes seemingly impenetrable...until you know her terms and her Terms, and then--she stands revealed as the Mystic she was and is.Book Review: The definitive Emily Dickinson poetry collection
Summary: 5 Stars
There's no need for me to comment on Emily Dickinson, or her phenomenal poetry that is the content of this book. It will speak for itself. What I will comment on is the authenticity of this book compared to others in that this book preserves Emily's poetry the way it was, with all the "mad" dashes, to convey the uncontainable element within her that she was only able to release through her poetry. The author is the primary researcher of Emily's poems and has thoroughly researched the world to compile the collection pretty much as the world knows it, and he has presented it in this book in full. If you are to have a collection of Emily Dickinson's poetry, it should be this one. No questions about it!