The Poems of Emily Dickinson (Variorum Edition), Franklin 9780674676220 New^+

Name: The Poems of Emily Dickinson (Variorum Edition), Franklin 9780674676220 New^+
Brand: Harvard University Press

Harvard University Press

The Poems of Emily DickinsonVariorum Edition\nAuthor(s): Emily Dickinson, R. W. Franklin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Harvard University Press, United States\nImprint: The Belknap Press\nISBN-13: 9780674676220, 978-0674676220\nSynopsis\nEmily Dickinson, poet of the interior life, imagined words/swords, hurling barbed syllables/piercing. Nothing about her adult appearance or habitation revealed such a militant soul. Only poems, written quietly in a room of her own, often hand-stitched in small volumes, then hidden in a desk drawer, revealed her true self. She did not live in time, as did that other great poet of the day, Walt Whitman, but in universals. As she knowingly put it: There is one thing to be grateful forthat one is ones self and not somebody else.\n\nDickinson lived and died without fame: she saw only a few poems published. Her great legacy was later rescued from her desk draweran astonishing body of work revealing her acute, sensitive nature reaching out boldly from self-.