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A collection of poems by âone of Americaâs greatest and most original poets of all timeâ (Poetry Foundation).  One of the nineteenth centuryâs leading poets, Emily Dickinson wrote nearly 1,800 poems during her lifetime, though only a handful were published. This collection includes some of Dickinsonâs best-known works, reflecting her thoughts on nature, life, death, the mind, and the spirit.  âEmily Dickinson is one of our most original writers, a force destined to endure in American letters. . . . Without elaborate philosophy, yet with irresistible ways of expression, Emily Dickinsonâs poems have true lyric appeal, because they make abstractions, such as love, hope, loneliness, death, and immortality, seem near and intimate and faithful.â âThe Atlantic  âEmily Dickinson did not leave any poetics or treatise to explain her lifeâs work, so we can come to her poetry with minds and hearts open, and unearth whatever it is we need to find. Her oeuvre is a large one and most of her work was done in secretâshe didnât share most of what she wrote. Ten or so poems were published in her lifetime, mostly without her consent. She often included poems with letters but, after her death, the poetâs sister Vinnie was surprised to find almost eighteen hundred individual poems in Dickinsonâs bedroom, some of them bound into booklets by the poet.â âPublishers Weekly  âDickinson found love, spiritual quickening and immortality, all on her own terms.â âThe Guardian |
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