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: The best we have -Read her and be enriched
Summary: 5 Stars
Emily Dickinson is one of the greats of world poetry. A language, a style , a world of her own. She writes memorable lines slanted to the heft of her own cathedral tunes. Success counted sweetest on her dying ear was distant sounds of triumph burst agonized and clear. She loved to lick the valleys up in skies of molten blue .She died twice before her death, and yet remained to see if immortality would reveal another event awesome as these. Intoxication was the going of an inland soul to sea, past the houses past the headlands into deep Eternity .
She gave us lines which live in our minds, and come back to us time and time again, rhymes off - rhymes too which take flight as poems of broken wings.
She enriches our life. She exalts us.
Read her and be enriched, the fragrant longing of a spinster's kiss.
Book Review: Don't Waste Your Money...
Summary: 5 Stars
On any other collection of Emily Dickinson's verse, because this is the one you're going to end up with, trust me. Beginners to Ms. Dickinson's poetry might be a little intimadated by this thick, thick book of untitled, sequentially numbered poems. But the thing about Dickinson's poems is that, while a lot aren't readily accessible, the ones that are (most of which invariably find their way into the smaller collections of her work) are so riveting that her readers inevitably end up wanting her complete collection on hand. Which is why they should just suck it up and buy this book in the first place. If you've never read Emily Dickinson, read some of her more famous work online or in the library first to see if you're interested. If so, buy this book immediately. If you already have another collection of her work and consider yourself a fan, sell whatever other collection you have and buy this one.
Book Review: Emily Dickinson: A True Original
Summary: 5 Stars
Emily Dickinson, who lived from 1830 to 1886, is to me the symbol of a poet with a unique and distinctive voice, a voice that seemed strange to her contemporaries but that gradually came to be recognized and cherished by lovers of poetry everywhere.She led a life withdrawn from the world and, in some ways, reality as most of us know it, for she lived mainly in her imagination. She found no recognition in her day and only six of her poems were published, all modified and conventional-ized by the editors to suit their readers, who liked old-fashioned verse and were not appreciative of new styles and innovative forms. But that didn't seem to bother Dickinson too much. In fact, she didn't even seem to take too much pride in her talent, even if she knew the full extent of it. For one thing, she kept it very private, except with a few correspondents. In fact, her poetry wasn't even discovered until after her death. Her sister went through her belongings in her room and found the many, many loose scraps of paper covered with poems that had been written down through the decades by Dickinson. So, although she was never to attain fame and success in her lifetime ("fame is a bee. / It has a song-- / It has a sting-- / Ah, too, it has a wing"), she eventually had to settle for "fame of the mind"--recognition of her talent in her own mind. It was for posterity to discover her. That didn't take long. Her first collection was put out only a short 4 years after her death.
The specific reason why so little of her poetry found its way in print while she was still alive was, largely, because her use of metre, punctuation, and rhyme was so irregular and unusual. Editors mistook her offbeat application of these elements as flaws of "technical imperfections". They did not understand that these "imperfections" were not mistakes at all on her part, but rather, poetic experimentations. But their error can be well understood, of course, when one realizes that what Emily Dickinson was doing was something they just had not seen attempted, by anyone. Even Walt Whitman, another highly experimental American poet of the time, was doing something completely different from her poetry. But like his poetry, hers too was considered uncontrolled and eccentric. It seemed to follow no set of rules for verse in a time when poetry had very clearly defined rules of composition.
Times have completely changed and poets today enjoy the fredom of unlimited expression. No longer are there any set rules for this or that, and all styles, forms and uses of punctuation (or lack of) are acceptable. In fact, newness and innovation are now considered a plus, all thanks to true and pioneering originals like Emily Dickinson.
David Rehak
author of "Poems From My Bleeding Heart"
Book Review: Great poems!
Summary: 5 Stars
What can I say? This book is great!Book Review: Delightfully primitive
Summary: 1 Stars
a bold book with a hint of sophistication but lacking in pretension. I don't particularly care for the poetry of this excessivly repetitios. It is imparative that the reader have a uniwue point of view to understand her literature.