The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Paperback – June 7, 2021

I hope she awakes in possibility with the fairest friend of all. The needle still in the groove the fairest house of all.

Emily is a wonderful writer and this book has a nice layout to her collection. Lightweight book, good sized font. Would buy again and for someone else.

It is hard to believe this superb poet lacked confidence in her own time. She published only a handful of poems while she lived. Her dear friend made sure the balance of her work was published after her death. Here they are presented in all their glory. If you love beautiful language and exquisite rhyme schemes, Dickinson will delight.

I bought this because I wanted to try to get into poetry. I'm not a poetry person. So what I like about this is that non poets can understand most of these poems. They can enjoy them a little.

Dickenson is so wonderful and great, of course. But this ebook is so bad at every level. Not the Johnson version. (Not sure what the source text really is.) Not complete. Formatted with triple spaces. Unusable. Do not buy.

For Christmas, my edgy nephew wanted some poetry. He is all into Juice Wrld and some of the depressing rock/rap, so I knew Emily was right up his alleyway. He has enjoyed it.

I've been reading Emily Dickinson all of my life, off and on. I decided at age 60, to read her Complete Poems & discovered a much different persona emerged when I read the lesser known poems along side the immortal ones. Reading only her most majestic poems gave her an almost untouchable aura. She was damn near perfect when read selectively, but in reading her less stellar efforts, a more human poet emerged & a more engaging one at that. Rating poets with stars is as silly as giving chocolate hearts to tin men, but how could I give any less than five to this angelic woman. The odd thing is, that this more human poet with frailties that the Complete Poems showed me, seems even more divine now. As for her poetics, she knew how to play slightly off key when she wanted to & it makes her work, the work of an original. Her erotic poems, though few, (Wild Nights!) are best in class. Thanks you Emily Dickinson, for your letter to the world.

I love Amazon, but reviews and descriptions of very different versions and editions get all jumbled together. The Amazon Review I am looking at for a Kindle edition published by the Heraklion Press claims that this a complete version "uncorrupted by editorial revision," the Thomas Johnson edition of 1955. But the Look Inside does not show that edition, and it seems vanishingly unlikely that any Kindle edition of the Johnson or Franklin editions will ever be available for less than ten dollars.Although she wrote so long ago, Dickinson's work was originally heavily edited by friends and relations. So far as I can tell, those are the only versions that are in the public domain, the only versions you are likely to see for a buck or two on Kindle. The truly accurate version first published in 1955 by the Harvard University Press is still under copyright. Only the copyrighted versions are "uncorrupted by editorial revision," and the differences are not minor. At the time I write this, no Harvard University Press version seems to be offered for Kindle, and if it ever is, it will almost certainly cost a lot more than a few bucks.These old public domain editions do show the poems the way they were seen for a long time. They're better than nothing. But if you want to see Dickinson's poems as they were actually written, you currently need to look up one of the post-1955 editions edited by Johnson or Franklin printed on paper.

Ótima coletânea

L’integral en un seul livre. Belle qualité d’impression

Good book. Good poems. No illustrations

Natürlich sind Dickinsons Gedichte wunderbar, aber die vorliegende Ausgabe ist indiskutabel - Texte ohne jedes Register oder Verzeichnis lieblos aneinander geklatscht, teils Seitenumbruch zwischen Textnummer und Text. Fehlende Seitenzahlen. billigstes Papier, schlecht gebunden. Weder zum Genuss noch für Arbeit im geringsten brauchbar - ich habe das Buch zurückgegeben und kaufe nun eine andere Ausgabe.

Good