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About "Selected Poetry of Emily Dickinson" "No poet before or since has written of human emotions with Emily
Dickinson's blazing exactness."
-- Galway Kinnell "I am small, like the Wren, and my Hair is bold, like the Chestnut Bur/and my eyes, like the Sherry in the Glass, that the Guest leaves ..." wrote Emily Dickinson (1830-86), describing herself in a letter to her friend in the summer of 1862. In the end, it was through her magnificent body of work that Dickinson left a self-portrait that has haunted readers ever since the "discovery" of her work in the early 1890s. In a new collection prepared by The New York Public Library, Dickinson's greatest and most powerful lyrics are compiled to allow poetry lovers access into the interior world of this 19th century American poet whose modernity and boldness has not diminished in the last hundred years. Among some of the unique treasures of "Selected Poetry of Emily Dickinson" are: portraits of the poet as a young girl and woman; a lithograph of Amherst, Mass., which includes the Dickinson homestead; handwritten letters by Dickinson; portraits of her favorite authors -- Emily Brontë, George Eliot and Elizabeth Barrett Browning; and a notebook of her poems as assembled by Stephen Tennant, a famous aesthete. The works of Emily Dickinson are divided into three parts in this edition. Parts I and III deserve special mention. Part I contains the handful of poems published during the poet's lifetime, including the details pertaining to each poem's first publication. Most poems were "improved" or altered for publication. Here they are presented, as are all poems in this edition, in Dickinson's original text as established by Thomas H. Johnson in the 1955 Harvard Variorum edition of the poems. Part III includes one of Dickinson's little-known poetic sequences, the 19-poem Fascicle No. 13 ("fascicles" were small, hand-stitched manuscript books of her poems that the poet began to assemble around 1858), reproduced in the order she established. Also featured in this entirely original selection are her longer poems. You have the option of purchasing your own copies of The New York Public Library Collector's editions of the classic books being discussed, courtesy of Borders Books and Music. Just click on the Borders icon below.
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