Explore the essence of life, love, nature, and time in exquisite verse
with this elegantly designed edition of Emily Dickinson's finest
poems.
Born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a prominent New England
family and educated at Amherst Academy and Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary,
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson lived most of her life in seclusion, devoted
to writing. She scarcely left home, nor did she have many visitors. Only
ten of her poems were published in her lifetime, submitted without her
permission by friends. It was only after her death in 1886 that the
scope of her work as a poet came to light--over 1,700 poems were
discovered in a dresser drawer by her sister, Lavinia.
Emily Dickinson's poems reflect her loneliness, as well as her love of
nature, the influence of the Metaphysical poets of seventeenth century
England, and her strong Puritan religious beliefs. Yet, it is her use of
language, form, and the deceptive simplicity of her verse that
categorize her as an important force in nineteenth century American
letters and, along with Walt Whitman, a founder of a distinctly American
voice in modern poetry.
PRELUDE
THIS is my letter to the world,
That never wrote to me, --
That 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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