The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Summary and Reviews

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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Author: Emily Dickinson
Editor: Thomas H. Johnson
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1976-01-30
ISBN: 0316184136
Number of pages: 784
Publisher: Back Bay Books

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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.

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