The Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Poems of Emily Dickinson
By: Emily Dickinson
This first Large Print edition of Emily Dickinson’s poetry brings together in a single volume the three collections of her poems collected after her death by her friends and her literary executors, Mabel Loomis Dodge and Thomas Wentworth Higginson in 1890-1896. Only six of the 348 poems collected here were published in Dickinson’s lifetime and none of those by her choice. Poems in each of the three volumes collected here are arranged in four thematic sections: Life, Love, Nature, and Time and Eternity. All of Dickinson’s best known poems are included. To help the reader find personal favorites, an Index of First Lines is provided.
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Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson (b. December 10, 1830, d. May 15, 1886) was born in Amherst Massachusetts to a well-connected family. She never married, but stayed with her family to care for her ailing mother, and over her lifetime became increasingly reclusive. In 1858 Dickinson began assembling her collection of nearly 1,800 poems into volumes that her sister Lavinia discovered after her death. Despite Dickinson's prolific writing, only ten poems and a letter were published during her lifetime. Dickinson's first volume was published four years after her death. Until Thomas H. Johnson published Dickinson's Complete Poems in 1955, Dickinson's poems were considerably edited and altered from their manuscript versions. Since 1890 Dickinson has remained continuously in print.
