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: Good for its time, but...
Summary: 1 Stars
Now that the wonderful three volume Franklin edition Dickinson's poems exist, I don't see how this old Johnson edition could be taken seriously. Johnson's choices for a particular reading were not always the best -- many of Dickinson's poems don't have a sanctioned "final" form from the poet. Franklin's edition presents the poems with all the variations in words and phrases so that the reader could decide which of the variations works best when Dickinson herself was undecided. If you love Emily Dickinson, invest in the Franklin Variorum edition. It's worth every penny of it's rather high price.Book Review: Trancendant...
Summary: 5 Stars
I couldn't always appreciate Dickenson and perhaps you may not yet be ready to appreciate her work. I can't comment on how it feels to be touched by her because it defies description and rather than try, I would suggest you give her a read. If her metaphor is not lost on you, you will be glad you made the effort. Also, spring for the extra $7 to get the hardcover... if it doesn't speak to you today, tuck it away on a shelf and someday you'll pick it up and wonder why you let it sit for so long...Book Review: The inspiration to boost my life
Summary: 5 Stars
Emily Dickenson has made my life actually worth while. Everytime I hear one of her magnifesent poems I feel life surge through me. My life is a bit of a downer, I'm in depression a lot. Her poems have helped me. I am a poet myelf, and a writer so its inspirational to hear her poetry. I hate to hear people say she's a terrible poet because its not true! Her passed was a bit sad, to my opinion, but she lived to be the greatest poet I will ever know! I don't know any other way to explain her great poetry, its almost like trying to tell why you like shakespears plays. They are just so much. If you want to feel true inspiration, I recemend Emily Dickenson. Anyone who doesn't like Emily Dickenson or disses her doesn't know poetry and I pitty them.Book Review: incredibly deep...
Summary: 5 Stars
Some of these poems are so HUMAN-easy to relate to, speaking of truth and beauty. I think that the person who gave it one star, well-they obviously have no intelligence or understanding of good writings.Book Review: One of the few poets who ever perfected a method.
Summary: 5 Stars
I have 1000 words to tell what Dickinson means to me, an impossible task I gladly take up. I'd like to respond to others on this page. I once called Dickinson the "patron saint of lonely people everywhere," so I can identify with what one person said about teenage shut-ins. And I don't blame the person who snubbed her for not leaving a name--I'd be embarrassed to as well. Emily egotistical? The poet who wrote, "I'm nobody"? Wow. I love Dickinson's work so much because her vision of life is so fully her own, so at odds with the views of those around her. Can you imagine knowing you are the most brilliant lyric poet of your time (Whitman was more an epic or narrative poet), and knowing no one understood you? It's like trying to communicate in a foreign language that only you know. In fact, that is exactly what she did--she explodes the syntax, vocabulary, and syllabication of English and transforms it into her own private means of communication. She demands that we meet her on her ground. True, reading her work is not "fun"--there's too much pain and burning beauty in it to be an easy ride. She is not for everyone--only for those who see that life's disappointments both destroy and liberate us at the same time: comparing human hurts to trees destroyed by nature's forces, she says (in poem 314), "We--who have the Souls-- / Die oftener--Not so vitally--." Those may be the finest lines any poet ever wrote in English.