Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson
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Emily Dickinson
Selected Poems

Author: Emily Dickinson

Narrator: Mary Woods

Unabridged: 5 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/20/2012

Synopsis

Emily Dickinson today has gaining her deserved place alongside Walt Whitman as one of the two greatest American poets of the nineteenth century. Beginning always with particulars of personal experience, her poems encompass life and death, love and longing, joyfulness and sorrow. With sparse, precise language, she conveyed a penetrating vision of the natural world and an acute understanding of the most profound human truths. The poems included in this collection are grouped by three time periods, 1890, 1891, and 1896, and by the subjects of life, love, nature, and time and eternity.

About Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. Throughout her life, she seldom left her house, and visitors were scarce. The people with whom she did come in contact, however, had an enormous impact on her thoughts and poetry. By the 1860s, she lived in almost total physical isolation from the outside world but actively maintained many correspondences and read widely. Her poetry reflects her loneliness, and the speakers of her poems generally live in a state of want, but her poems are also marked by the intimate recollection of inspirational moments which are decidedly life-giving and suggest the possibility of happiness. The first volume of her work was published posthumously in 1890 and the last in 1955.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs on May 19, 2017

Emily Dickinson is one of my favourite poets; she is the gothic queen of poetry. At times she strongly reminds me of Edgar Allan Poe. Her poems are less macabre than Poe’s and certainly less fantastical, focusing more on human perception of the darkness and the realities of life, but her work is und......more

Goodreads review by Paul on October 29, 2012

1 Because I could not stop for Cops They kindly Stopped for Me The Roadblocks covered all three lanes Perfect Symmetry 2 A narrow Fellow - in the grass With one eyed – snake – and smile You may have met him – did you not The local – paedo – phile 3 I heard a Boy-Band - when I died The Radio - was on And rushing......more

Goodreads review by Micah on June 23, 2022

"I had no time to hate, because The grave would hinder me, And life was not so ample I Could finish enmity. Nor had I time to love, but since Some industry must be, The little toil of love, I thought, Was large enough for me." Emily Dickinson Dickinson has a way of reaching out and grabbing my soul as no......more

Goodreads review by Ed on March 06, 2018

An appreciation of Emily Dickinson's poetry is greatly improved by a familiarity with the enigma of her personal life. Who was this strange hermit, who produced such an abundance of poems - childlike, with nursery-rhyme cadence; wildly inconsistent - yet earnest and pure, and possessing a preternatu......more

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