Essential Dickinson (Essential Poets, 25) - Softcover

Dickinson, Emily

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0880015209 ISBN 13: 9780880015202

Publisher: Ecco, 1998

Synopsis

The twenty-third volume in the series includes selections both famous and lesser-known from the poems of Emily Dickinson, capturing both her droll humor and her elegiac longing, including an introduction by the editor. Reprint.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Emily Dickinson saw fewer than twenty of her 1,775 poems published during her lifetime: when she died in 1886, her obscurity as a poet was nearly total. Now widely recognized as one of the great American poets of the nineteenth century, she is one of a handful from any period whose enduring stature in the world of letters is matched by the loyal affection of generation after generation of readers. In this distinguished addition to The Essential Poets series, Joyce Carol Oates presents a "personal - yet not private" collection of Dickinson favorites, selecting from relatively obscure works as well as better-known poems to illuminate Dickinson's often unacknowledged range. Oates takes care to introduce us to the poet's subversive playfulness; to her rebellious nature and radical aesthetic; to her gender-bending personae and surprisingly wicked humor. At the heart of this collection, of course, stands the work that made Dickinson's reputation as one of America's great visionary poets: an artist who has written with stoic control and astonishing lucidity about the soul's darkest, most terrifying hours.

About the Author:

Known as “The Myth of Amherst” for her withdrawal from society while still a young women, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) had an inner life that was deeply emotional and intense. She know rapture and despair, pondered the wonder of God and the meaning of death. She broke tradition and was criticized for her seminal experiments with unorthodox phrasing, rhyme and broken meter, within concise verse forms, thus becoming an innovator and forerunner of modern poets.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ecco
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0880015209
• ISBN 13: 9780880015202
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 94