From childhood on, Dickinson's life was sequested and obscure. Yet her verse had a power and influence that has traveled far beyond the cultured yet relatively circumscribed environment in which she lived her life.

Ralph Franklin, the foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts, has prepared an authoritative one-volume edition of all extant poems by Emily Dickinson - 1,789 poems in all, the largest number ever assembled. This reading edition derives from his three-volume work, The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Variorum Edition (1998), which contains approximately 2,500 sources for the poems. ...(展开全部)

"The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson," by Emily Dickinson, is part of the ""Barnes and Noble Classics" "series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of "Barnes and Noble Classics": New introductions...(展开全部)

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 paper-back. It provides crucial texts for the appreciation of America liter...(展开全部)

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 paper-back. It provides crucial texts for the appreciation of America liter...(展开全部)

Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson. As she did in The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, she serves as an incomparable guide, considering both stylistic...(展开全部)

Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson. As she did in "The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets", she serves as an incomparable guide, considering both stylist...(展开全部)

Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson. As she did in The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, she serves as an incomparable guide, considering both stylistic...(展开全部)

艾米莉·狄金森（一八三○―一八八六）十九世纪美国女诗人，出生于律师家庭。青少年时代生活单调而平静，受正规宗教教育。从二十五岁开始弃绝社交，女尼似的闭门不出，在孤独中埋头写诗三十年，留下诗稿一千七百余首；生前只发表过七首，其余的都在她死后才出版，并被世人所知，名气极大。 狄金森的诗主要写生活情趣，自然、生命、信仰、友谊、爱情。诗风凝练婉约、意向清新，描绘真切、精微，思想深沉、凝聚力强，极富独创性。她被视为二十世纪现代主义诗歌的先驱之一。美国诗人最著名的伎使者是美国文学之父欧文，以及惠特曼和秋金森。 美国人献给狄金森的铭文是“啊，杰出的艾米莉·狄金森！”

艾米莉·狄金森（一八三○―一八八六）十九世纪美国女诗人，出生于律师家庭。青少年时代生活单调而平静，受正规宗教教育。从二十五岁开始弃绝社交，女尼似的闭门不出，在孤独中埋头写诗三十年，留下诗稿一千七百余首；生前只发表过七首，其余的都在她死后才出版，并被世人所知，名气极大。 狄金森的诗主要写生活情趣，自然、生命、信仰、友谊、爱情。诗风凝练婉约、意向清新，描绘真切、精微，思想深沉、凝聚力强，极富独创性。她被视为二十世纪现代主义诗歌的先驱之一。美国诗人最著名的伎使者是美国文学之父欧文，以及惠特曼和秋金森。 美国人献给狄金森的铭文是“啊，杰出的艾米莉·狄金森！”