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This comprehensive and authoritative collection of all 1,775 poems by Emily Dickinson is an essential volume for all lovers of American literature.

This complete compendium of Emily Dickenson's poetry offers the reader a vivid portrait of one of Massachusetts' most famous and enigmatic poets. Although a greatly talented writer, Emily Dickenson lived most of her life in private seclusion, in contrast to the culture of the time which emphasized community and socializing.

Throughout her life, Emily's family ensured her care and comfort; she lived a life characterized by quiet self-seclusion. Emily's early life ensured a great standard of education, with her aunts in particular noting her inclination toward musical and literary interests.

Contemporary scholars generally agree that Emily Dickenson's isolation was chiefly the result of a persistent depression. The death of a school principal she admired, and of several friends, plummeted her toward isolation during the prime of her life. Despite her illness, she managed to travel with her family to see life beyond her hometown of Amhurst and publish a few of her poems.

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Delhi Open Books
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November 2, 2020
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Emily Dickinson proved that brevity can be beautiful. Only now is her complete oeuvre--all 1,775 poems--available in its original form, uncorrupted by editorial revision, in one volume. Thomas H. Johnson, a longtime Dickinson scholar, arranged the poems in chronological order as far as could be ascertained (the dates for more than 100 are unknown). This organization allows a wide-angle view of Dickinson's poetic development, from the sometimes-clunky rhyme schemes of her juvenilia, including valentines she wrote in the early 1850s, to the gloomy, hell-obsessed writings from her last years. Quite a difference from requisite Dickinson entries in literary anthologies: "There's a certain Slant of light," "Wild Nights--Wild Nights!" and "I taste a liquor never brewed."

The book was compiled from Thomas H. Johnson's hard-to-find variorum from 1955. While some explanatory notes would have been helpful, it's a prodigious collection, showcasing Dickinson's intractable obsession with nature, including death. Poem 1732, which alludes to the deaths of her father and a onetime suitor, illustrates her talent:

My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,

So huge, so hopeless to conceive
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.

The musicality of her punctuation and the outright elegance of her style--akin to Christina Rossetti's hymns, although not nearly so religious--rescue the poems from their occasional abstruseness. The Complete Poems is especially refreshing because Dickinson didn't write for publication; only 11 of her verses appeared in magazines during her lifetime, and she had long-resigned herself to anonymity, or a "Barefoot-Rank," as she phrased it. This is the perfect volume for readers wishing to explore the works of one of America's first poets. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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This is now the definitive text of Dickinson, a poet one can open at random and find something exhilarating. (The Guardian)

Mr. Franklin is the recognized authority on Emily Dickinson's poetry and gives us 1,789 poems, the largest and most accurate collection of her verse...For all those who love Emily Dickinson's unique verse this is a treasure trove from which to choose. This is a publishing coup of the first order. (Contemporary Review 2000-10-01)

Not only is it the 'authoritative' and 'definitive' edition of her complete poems, it is a gorgeous volume printed by the Belknap Press, complete with a crimson ribbon bookmark...For those who like Emily Dickinson and who want all the poems as she wrote them, unmolested by well-meaning editors and thoughtless publishers, this is the book. In one volume you can hold the closest thing to the real Dickinson that anyone will ever get. (bn.com) --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

ASIN : B08MLGSMP2
Publisher : Delhi Open Books; 1st edition (November 2, 2020)
Publication date : November 2, 2020
Language : English
File size : 1417 KB
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Print length : 274 pages
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Best Sellers Rank: #57,560 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #34 in American Poetry (Kindle Store)
- #340 in American Poetry (Books)

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Ryan Sutter

The not so complete "Complete" edition

Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2019

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I lost my old edition of Emily Dickinson's complete poems a few months back so i bought this edition hoping it would be a suitable replacement. I was greatly disappointed. I would NOT recommend the Pantianos Classics Edition. First off, on the spine of the book, the title is "The Complete Poems Of Emily Dickenson". They couldn't even spell her name right so there's your first warning. But whats most irritating is how utterly far away from being a COMPLETE volume of her poems this is. Its probably more along the lines of 1/4 of her total work, leaving many of her finest pieces out of this edition for whatever reason. Usually when I purchase a book I'll look into it a little bit, you know, read reviews and have a look inside. I'll look to see what the dimensions, size and weight of the book are as well as how many pages it contains. I'll admit I may have rushed through the purchase and just saw "complete" and "Dickinson" and I threw it in my cart and checked out. Learned my lesson good. It made me so angry and just let down that I purchased a different volume, I had to have her words. But the Back Bay Books version of her COMPLETE poems is much much better. It's the real deal and it is easily 10 times as thick as this edition and what's important about that? Its because it actually does contain her COMPLETE POEMS.

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bonnadella

Not a book, but a bunch of photocopied papers

Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2017

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This could hardly be called a "book". It's a photo copied papers, with a flimsy paper/cardboardish cover. It should sell for a dollar. Really bad quality. And the poems in small print. They have a lot of nerve selling this as a book. I could have printed out poems off the internet. It seems thats what the publisher did.

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Julia A. ErgovichAmazon Customer

BEAUTIFULAND PROFOUND

Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2020

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Living isolated and living for her art Emily Dickenson was genius. She had no mentor or instructor and all her poetry was individual effort without tutelage or critique from other writers.

Emily said she knew it was poetry when it felt as if the top of her head had been taken off. YES! A derangement of the senses emotionally and intellectually that leaves the reader changed and breathless.

MINE IS NO COWARD'S SOUL poem written by Emily Bronte was recited at Emily Dickenson's funeral. Emily was no artistic coward and heaven is a better place with her in it just like Emily says in her poem homage to Charlotte Bronte. A quiet passion is Emily Dickenson.

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No index, titles, page numbers, editor's note - AVOID!

Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2015

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This is not a real book - or at least the one I received wasn't, My copy did not have an acknowledgment of who the editor was - Johnson supposedly? Nor did it have an index. Or a list of contents. Which I guess doesn't matter because it did not even have page numbers. There is no title page, or publisher information - in lieu of that there is only three telling lines on the last page: "printed in the USA on March 11 2015." This is not a book, it's a print-off, and a lousy one at that.

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William Adams

Not in fact the Johnson edition, but another heavily edited public domain version.

Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2014

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I love Amazon, but reviews and descriptions of very different versions and editions get all jumbled together. The Amazon Review I am looking at for a Kindle edition published by the Heraklion Press claims that this a complete version "uncorrupted by editorial revision," the Thomas Johnson edition of 1955. But the Look Inside does not show that edition, and it seems vanishingly unlikely that any Kindle edition of the Johnson or Franklin editions will ever be available for less than ten dollars.

Although she wrote so long ago, Dickinson's work was originally heavily edited by friends and relations. So far as I can tell, those are the only versions that are in the public domain, the only versions you are likely to see for a buck or two on Kindle. The truly accurate version first published in 1955 by the Harvard University Press is still under copyright. Only the copyrighted versions are "uncorrupted by editorial revision," and the differences are not minor. At the time I write this, no Harvard University Press version seems to be offered for Kindle, and if it ever is, it will almost certainly cost a lot more than a few bucks.

These old public domain editions do show the poems the way they were seen for a long time. They're better than nothing. But if you want to see Dickinson's poems as they were actually written, you currently need to look up one of the post-1955 editions edited by Johnson or Franklin printed on paper.

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IsoldeEsquire

Neither complete nor correct

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2019

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This edition is neither complete nor correct. It omits the punctuation now generally in use for Dickinson’s work, improperly formats and titles poems, and omits much. This is maybe fine for an eighth grader. If you want to actually read Dickinson don’t waste time here.

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The text is so incredibly small, you literally need ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2017

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The text is so incredibly small, you literally need a magnifying glass to read it. The spline is blank, so when placed on a bookshelf you are unable to tell which book it is unless you know the only book on the shelf with out text on the spline is Emily Dickinson!!

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callie b

This is NOT the Johnson edition, but a bait ...

Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2015

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This is NOT the Johnson edition, but a bait and switch version. Most dashes removed (a few left for character?!), some titles added and organized BY THEME. It is an appalling abomination and NOT Dickinson's poetry. Amazon, why not simply rob me at gunpoint?

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Andy Schonfelder

This appears not to be the edition it claims to ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 20, 2015

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This appears not to be the edition it claims to be, or at least the poems are in an edited form. I guess this is as edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who changed the punctuation and occasionally the wording of the poems. Not that edited by Thomas H. Johnson, which restored the poems as much as possible to their intended state.

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Mr. D. Williams

Delivery was good and the price excellent

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 8, 2020

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The book arrived in good time but the quality of the binding was quite cheap and the covers are starting to curl, but all the poetry is there and I have enjoyed reading them at a great price. Would use again.

anon

A great wordsmith

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 17, 2020

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Bought as a gift for a Millennial. I had a quick leaf through & realised how often she is quoted & how modern her poetry is & how relevant it is for this day & age.

Yelsel Ecirp

Reasonable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 29, 2017

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Disappointed with print size lay out and book size
Clean but style not appropriate for Emily Dickson
A bit amaturish in presentation. E.g. Where the poem is presented on the page. All the poems I like were there but not all her fits and dashes

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Chris Heath

Terrible Printing Quality + Bastardized Text

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 28, 2019

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Absolutely awful printing quality, ironically enough for a publishers called 'First Rate Publishers'. Fuzzy image on the cover, printed on low-quality paper without about ten poems per page in tiny font. No respect shown to the work at all - and it uses the editors' punctuation rather than Dickinsons'. Awful. Avoid.

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