- Audio Cassette
- Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks (January 1993)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0786103973
- ISBN-13: 978-0786103973
- Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 17 x 3.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 295 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Unpublished in her lifetime and unknown at the time of her death, Emily Dickinson today is gaining her deserved place alongside Walt Whitman as one of the two greatest American poets of the 19th century. 4 cassettes.
About the Author
Emily was born in 1830 in , Massachusetts, where she spent almost all her life. In her late twenties she withdrew from normal social activity, rarely went outdoors, and stopped seeing even her closest friends. But she did write lots of letters, and when she died in 1886 it was discovered that she had also written over 1,000 seven of which had been published in her lifetime. Book publication of her work commenced in 1890.
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A prism which captures the white light of reality,
This review is from: Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems (Hardcover)
Just as a prism breaks up light into a band of colors - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet - and their infinite gradations, so do Emily Dickinson's poems become, as it were, a prism which captures the white light of reality, a reality which as it flows through the prism of her poem explodes into a multiplicity of meanings.It is the rich suggestiveness of her poems, a suggestiveness which generates an incredible range of meanings, that prevents us from ever being able to say (to continue the metaphor) that a given poem is 'about red' or 'about blue,' because her poems, as US critic Robert Weisbuch has observed, are in fact about _everything_. This is what makes her so unique, and this is why she appeals to every kind of reader (or certainly to open-minded ones) and even to children. Emily Dickinson's poetry is one of the wonders of the world.
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Hidden meaning and insight in every poem.............,
By girldiver "Enjoy!" - Published on Amazon.com
I love poetry but had not read many if any of emily dickinson so I picked this up to read in my spare time. At first glance the book and poems seemed so simple and easy to read. I thought it would be a small little delight to read her short poems while waiting in the car, or at the bank, in line at the grocier, but as I embarked on a stolen moment with the poems of emily dickinson you discover her poems are hardly simple.Every poem seems has more than one meaning. You can truely see how complicated this simple woman must have been even in her observations. I have been delighted by her insight and each poem makes me wonder of the woman who wrote them. A lovely read. 7 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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A prism which captures the white light of reality,
By tepi "tepi" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems (Hardcover)
Just as a prism breaks up light into a band of colors - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet - and their infinite gradations, so do Emily Dickinson's poems become, as it were, a prism which captures the white light of reality, a reality which as it flows through the prism of her poem explodes into a multiplicity of meanings.It is the rich suggestiveness of her poems, a suggestiveness which generates an incredible range of meanings, that prevents us from ever being able to say (to continue the metaphor) that a given poem is 'about red' or 'about blue,' because her poems, as US critic Robert Weisbuch has observed, are in fact about _everything_. This is what makes her so unique, and this is why she appeals to every kind of reader (or certainly to open-minded ones) and even to children. Emily Dickinson's poetry is one of the wonders of the world.
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Beautiful poetry,
By J. Barnes - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems (Hardcover)
If you like poetry that makes you stop and think, or really hits home for you, I'd recommend this book. The book jacket was sort of creepy because it had a picture of her. Anyway, I know I'll be reading this book again and again! :)
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