Collected Poems

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title : Collected Poems Courage Classics
author : Dickinson, Emily.
publisher : Courage Books
isbn10 | asin : 0762405627
print isbn13 : 9780762405626
ebook isbn13 : 9780585300962
language : English
subject  
publication date : 1991
lcc : PS1541.A6 1991eb
ddc : 811/.4
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Emily Dickinson
Collected Poems
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Copyright © 1991 by Running Press Book Publishers. Printed in the United States of America. All rights reserved under the Pan-American and International Copyright Conventions.
The essay "Emily Dickinson and the Poetry of the Inner Life" by Elizabeth Jennings is an excerpt from the essay published in A Review of English Literature, Volume Three, Number Two (April, 1962), © 1962 Longmans, Green and Co., Inc. and is reprinted by permission of The University of Calgary Press.
"Emily Dickinson" from American Characteristics by Thornton Wilder. © 1957 by Thornton Wilder. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or hereafter invented, without written permission from the publisher.
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Digit on the right indicates the number of this printing.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-publication Number 91-71089
ISBN 1-56138-045-8
Editor: Peter Siegenthaler 
Jacket design by Toby Schmidt 
Interior design by Nancy Loggins 
Typography: ITC Berkeley Oldstyle, by Commcor 
Communications Corporation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Published by Courage Books, an imprint of 
Running Press Book Publishers 
125 South Twenty-second Street 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103

 

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CONTENTS
Introduction
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Poems by Emily Dickinson (1890)
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Prelude
12
Preface by T.W. Higginson
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The Poems
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I. Life
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II. Love
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III. Nature
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IV. Time and Eternity
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Poems by Emily Dickinson, Second Series (1891)
91
Preface
by Mabel Loomis Todd
92
Prelude
96
The Poems
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I. Life
97
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II. Love
132
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III. Nature
145
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IV. Time and Eternity
182

 

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Poems by Emily Dickinson, Third Series (1896)
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Prelude
214
Preface
by Mabel Loomis Todd
215
The Poems
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I. Life
216
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II. Love
246
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III. Nature
258
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IV. Time and Eternity
276
The Single Hound (1914)
309
Preface
by Martha Dickinson Bianchi
310
Prelude
318
The Poems
320
Essays
387
By Thornton Wilder
389
By Elizabeth Jennings
394
Index of First Lines
403

 

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INTRODUCTION
Now celebrated as one of America's greatest poets, Emily Dickinson is also famous for her quiet, private life. The daughter of a prominent lawyer and Congressman of Amherst, Massachusetts, she confined her activities to the grounds of the family home She traveled out of Amherst only a handful of times, and did not marry. Later in her life she dressed all in white and acquired a reputation as an eccentric recluse.
In her self-imposed isolation, Dickinson's passion and perception found outlet in poetry of dazzling honesty and originality. Although she corresponded with the essayist and critic Thomas Wentworth Higginson and often accompanied gifts to family and friends with snippets of verse, no one realized the scope of her writing until after her death in 1886. The subsequent publication and appreciation of her work are a testament to the fruitfulness of her solitary labors.
This edition gathers the first four volumes of Dickinson's poetry, complete with their introductions and preludes. We have endeavored to let the poems speak for themselves, and in this spirit we have deleted titles added by Dickinson's original editors, titles not envisioned by the poet herself. Otherwise, the poems appear here just as they did upon first publication.
In the century since the first of these books introduced her verse to the public, Emily Dickinson has become one of the world's best-loved writers. Her poems continue to offer their unflinching exploration of the human condition and a tender appreciation of nature and love.

 

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POEMS
BY EMILY DICKINSON

 

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Prelude
This is my letter to the world, 
     That never wrote to me, 
The simple news that Nature told, 
     With tender majesty.
Her message is committed 
     To hands I cannot see; 
For love of her, sweet countrymen, 
     Judge tenderly of me!

 

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Preface
The verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called "the Poetry of the Portfolio"something produced absolutely without the thought of publication, and solely by way of expression of the writer's own mind. Such verse must inevitably forfeit whatever advantage lies in the discipline of public criticism and the enforced conformity to accepted ways. On the other hand, it may often gain something through the habit of freedom and the unconventional utterance of daring thoughts. In the case of the present author, there was absolutely no choice in the matter; she must write thus, or not at all. A recluse by temperament and habit, literally spending years without setting her foot beyond the doorstep, and many more years during which her walks were strictly limited to her father's grounds, she habitually concealed her mind, like her person, from all but a very few friends; and it was with great difficulty that she was persuaded to print, during her lifetime, three or four poems.

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