The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

“The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson” is the only authoritative paperback collection of all of Emily Dickinson’s poetry. The editor, Thomas H. Johnson, has assembled a reading text of the preferred forms of all 1,775 poems, and has included in his introduction an explanation of his selection of texts, plus a helpful outline of Emily Dickinson’s career. Thus this volume enables the reader to see as a whole the work of this remarkable poetic genius, the complexity of her personality, the fluctuation of her moods, and the development of her style.

The startling originality of Emily Dickinson’s style doomed her poetry to obscurity during her lifetime, but her bold experiments in prosody, her tragic vision, and the range of her intellectual and emotional explorations have since won her international recognition as a poet of the highest order.