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Emily Dickinson: Selected Letters Paperback – March 1, 1986

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When the complete Letters of Emily Dickinson appeared in three volumes in 1958, Robert Kirsch welcomed them in the Los Angeles Times, saying “The missives offer access to the mind and heart of one of America’s most intriguing literary personalities.” This one-volume selection is at last available in paperback. It provides crucial texts for the appreciation of American literature, women’s experience in the nineteenth century, and literature in general.

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“[These letters] present us with as inward a view of one of God’s rarer creatures as we are likely to be given… The letters themselves are as no others. The briefest line can be a mystery (and, when fathomed, a communion), the formal note a sign… If [these letters] are put alongside those of…Coleridge and Keats, they will present the most striking contrast in a poet’s reactions and sensibilities. But they will stand there unashamed.”―The Times

“She was no solemn bookworm destined to grow into a crabbed recluse, but a lively original creature, fully participating in the joys and despairs of a busy circle of friends and relatives… Here was a woman capable of the most intense emotion who was forced, or forced herself, to crystallize her feelings into words and phrases. The letters and poems are all of a piece. The letters, in fact, read sometimes like the raw materials of the poems.”―Listener

“Emily Dickinson’s letters are among the major treasures of American literature… [In] this one-volume selection…virtually everything of interest to the general reader or nonspecialist has been retained.”―Library Journal

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This one-volume selection is at last available in paperback. It provides crucial texts for the appreciation of American literature, women's experience in the nineteenth century, and literature in general.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Belknap Press (March 1, 1986)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0674250702
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0674250703
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.14 x 0.96 x 9.25 inches

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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Little known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, into a prominent family with strong ties to its community.
“Emily Dickinson is one of our most original writers, a force destined to endure in American letters. . . . Without elaborate philosophy, yet with irresistible ways of expression, Emily Dickinson’s poems have true lyric appeal, because they make abstractions, such as love, hope, loneliness, death, and immortality, seem near and intimate and faithful.” —The Atlantic
One of the nineteenth century’s leading poets, Emily Dickinson wrote nearly 1,800 poems during her lifetime, though only a handful were published.
Emily Dickinson was arguably America's most startling and original poet in the 19th century. According to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, her correspondent, and mentor, writing 15 years after her death, "Few events in American literary history have been more curious than the sudden rise of Emily Dickinson into a posthumous fame only more accentuated by the utterly recluse character of her life and by her aversion to even a literary publicity."
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Paul
They "asked me for my mind."
Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2017
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A hidden gem, this rare work assembled by Emily Dickenson's sister in law is a window into the life, times and thoughts of one of the worlds great literary genius's. In it she references a contemporary Ik Marvel, aka: Donald P. Mitchell, whose worked she marveled at. Reading Mitchell's Reveries of a Bachelor c.1850, you recognize immediately why, his dedication to word craft bordering on her obsessive own: "Could mortal lip divine - the undelivered fright - of a syllable delivered - T'would crumble of the weight. Dickinson like Mitchell, did not respect words and as much as revere them, and anyone who appreciates the same will find great pleasure and insight between the pages of Emily's Letters. Hell, I would recommend this book for no other reason than to visit the simplest of letters young Emily wrote to a mentor Thomas Higginson imploring him to help her discover her craft: "But I fear my story fatigues you. I would like to learn. Could you tell me how to grow, or is it conveyed, like melody or witchcraft?" Innocent in the moment, this pleading girl had yet to grasp that hers was a case of divine intervention. Find it, read it, and her.

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K. Ulrich
Emily Dickinson in Her Own Words
Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2015
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This book, more than perhaps any other with the possible exception of Sewall biography of Emily Dickinson, gives the reader a very good picture of what Emily Dickinson thought and her relationships. Among the more mundane, when I read the many notes she sent to people in sympathy, with gifts or flowers, or for other reasons, it made me regret the dying art of personal handwritten such notes today. It showed how much she was involved with her friends and family, contrary to some of the garbage put out there about her.

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Jennifer J. Fay
Loved it!
Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2018
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What a beautiful book. It put me so in tune with who Emily Dickinson really was. It's sometimes hard to read a little as they wrote differently back then. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I think she truly loved her friends, the flowers and God. I can see myself reading this over again. I also LOVED how throughout the book there's some of the poems she gave her friends.

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Karen V
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Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2017
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Fiction, which surprised me.

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Susan Bertken
Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2017
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If you're an Emily Dickenson fan, this is a must read!

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Thomas A. Hanson
Beware of deceptive paperback edition
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2010
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Like most customers of Amazon, I am always on the lookout for a bargain. You can understand why I salivated when I saw that a paperback edition of this mammoth collection of Dickinson's letters was available for only $8.93 -- far less than the expensive hardcover edition. Well, once again the adage of getting what you pay for is proved true. The book that arrived in the mail contains a small portion of the complete correspondence, and the format is not reader-friendly. No footnotes, not even a clear demarcation between the text of the letters and any explanatory information. Out-of-date is the kindest way to describe this edition. Don't fall into the trap that sucked $8.93 from my wallet!

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Letters
Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2016
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Emily's letters @ her life flesh out who this poetic genius was.

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Jessica Martinez
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Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2016
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I needed this for a class, decent book

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Reviewed in Germany on September 17, 2021
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Upwards 150€ for a single volume edition with glued "binding", pearl white paper and bad quality print. That is not how you keep book culture alive and well, or how you treat the people who are willing to pay these prices.

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The product was in great condition, with minimal signs of wear. The delivery was speedy and even arrived ahead of schedule. So, overall, I am very happy with this purchase.

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Reviewed in India on September 15, 2017
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It is a good book and has all the texts that I need.

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