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This Anchor edition includes both poems and letters, as well as the only contemporary description of Emily Dickinson, and is designed for readers who want the best poems and most interesting letters in convenient form. An excellent introduction to the work of a poet whose originality of thought remains unsurpassed in American poetry.
- Sales Rank: #300336 in Books
- Brand: Anchor
- Published on: 1959-09-01
- Released on: 1959-08-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.10" h x .70" w x 5.20" l, .58 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
- Great product!
From the Publisher
This Anchor edition includes both poems and letters, as well as the only contemporary description of Emily Dickinson, and is designed for readers who want the best poems and most interesting letters in convenient form. An excellent introduction to the work of a poet whose originality of thought remains unsurpassed in American poetry.
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This Anchor edition includes both poems and letters, as well as the only contemporary description of Emily Dickinson, and is designed for readers who want the best poems and most interesting letters in convenient form. An excellent introduction to the work of a poet whose originality of thought remains unsurpassed in American poetry.
About the Author
Arguably America s greatest poet, Emily Dickinson (1830 1886) published fewer than a dozen of her eighteen hundred poems during her lifetime.
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52 of 53 people found the following review helpful.
This is not really the edition you want.
By tepi
I don't doubt that it's possible to enjoy Emily Dickinson's poems in editions like this. But you should be aware that you are not really reading what she wrote. You are reading what earlier editors _wish_ she had written - a sort of 'tidied-up' and regularized version, the badly tampered-with-text of a genius by those who weren't.
In a way, the situation is a bit like the one that prevails with regard to food. Would you rather eat natural food or genetically modified food? Maybe the modified food doesn't taste any different, but it might be doing harmful things to you that the author of real food never intended. So why take a risk when we can have the real thing ?
There are two major editors who can be relied on for accurate texts of ED's poems. These are Dickinson scholars R. W. Franklin and Thomas H. Johnson. Both produced large Variorum editions for scholars, along with reader's editions of the Complete Poems for the ordinary reader. Details of their respective reader's editions are as follows.
THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON : Reading Edition. Edited by R. W. Franklin. 692 pp. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-674-67624-6 (hbk.)
THE COMPLETE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON. Edited by Thomas H. Johnson. 784 pp. Boston : Little, Brown, 1960 and Reissued. ISBN: 0316184136 (pbk.)
For those who don't feel up to tackling the Complete Poems, there is Johnson's abridgement of his Reader's edition, an excellent selection of what he feels were her best poems:
FINAL HARVEST : Emily Dickinson's Poems. Edited by Thomas H. Johnson. 352 pages. New York : Little Brown & Co, 1997. ISBN: 0316184152 (paperbound).
Friends, do yourself a favor and get Johnson's edition. Why accept a watered-down version when you can have the real thing?
20 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
When the Student is Greater Than the Teacher
By KBM
Emily Dickinson chose the wrong teacher when she reached out to Thomas Higginson, who was writing in the Atlantic Monthly, in the early 1860s. She asked him, "Are you too deeply occupied to say if my verse is alive?" She included original verse in her letter to Higginson challenging him deeply with her brilliance, depth of emotion, and astounding writing ability. Higginson seemed almost at a loss for words. This early letter, arriving in 1862, would be the beginning of a lifelong correspondence between Dickinson and Higginson.
He was disturbed by her offbeat and radical use of punctuation. His sagely but confused advice to her was to get more in line with standard punctuation. He understood correctly that Emily Dickinson was a unique-- possibly unprecedented voice in American Letters. But, he didn't understand quite enough the greatness that Dickinson's poetry represented.
Emily Dickinson is something of a tragic figure, apparently suffering from some kind of agoraphobia and an extreme shyness. She rarely left the grounds of her father's Amherst home. Higginson would only meet her twice in his life and he would describe the first meeting as follows, "The impression undoubtedly made of me was that of an excess of tension, and of something abnormal". He described her as needing help in solving "her abstruse problem of life". He described their meeting as the most disturbing meeting of his life. He said, "an instinct told me that the slightest attempt at direct cross examination would make her withdraw into her shell".
Reading Dickinson is challenging on so many levels. Her brilliance is almost shattering to the reader. Her ability to weave images, analogies, references, and emotion into her verse evokes deep responses from readers who care to meet her very weighty intellectual challenge. The sadness and depth of feeling in her work pours out of the page and seems to almost grab one by the heart and soul and throat.
Dickinson truly demands our attention and she gets it.
Her personal world was a small one but the places that her heart and intellect traveled certainly must have included the entire universe. She's not easy to read, but she is easy to love. She is a woman of grand skill and has a way of expression that make her timeless. She loved flowers and gardening and the grass and talked often in her work of life and so many deep frustrations of unfulfilled dreams and a deep core broken sadness that resulted from the deaths of family members around her. Only after her death did the world get to appreciate her incredible talent and skill. As a poet and correspondent, she is in the highest pantheon of American literature.
She would not know much fame in her life, but she is now immortal.
This is an excellent selection of her letters and poetry. The most important aspect of this particular book is that unlike other editors, this editor has chosen to leave Dickinson's unorthodox punctuation as she wrote it. In this case, the editor did very little editing and, in standing back and taking a more passive role, he has done a great service to everyone interested in Dickinson's work.
Her poetry and her prose appear so simple, yet are so complex and difficult to fathom. Her constructions, word choices, and comparisons can be very challenging for a modern reader, but they do sing. It seems so strange that Higginson would not actively pursue publication for Dickinson during her life. I think Dickinson challenged Higginson on so many levels and this was not an unusual effect that she had on people. It's seems a shame that Dickinson didn't enjoy the fame that she deserved during her life.
"For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering ratio
To the ecstasy.
For each beloved hour
Sharp pittances of years,
Bitter contested farthings
And coffers heaped with tears."
Many of Dickinson's poems are untitled including the poem above but it is still powerful and beautiful. Dickinson wears her emotions so clearly and so proudly, it's no wonder that people needing her would be uncomfortable. She is one of these lonely aesthetes whose soul and mind is so expansive, and whose mind is so flooded with words and thoughts, that those in her presence can readily be overwhelmed. In Higginson's case, she probably didn't even have to speak to make him uncomfortable.
If Emily Dickinson had written her introductory letter to another writer or critic rather than Thomas Higginson, is it likely that she would have enjoyed fame and plaudits during her lifetime for her grand and deep poetry? Or, is it possible that Dickinson was ahead of her time, born too early into a society that just couldn't understand what she was trying to say?
I think that one has to have a little bit of sympathy for Higginson. It's not his fault, really, that he just didn't have the requisite depth of comprehension when Dickinson first approached him and throughout the ensuing years. It is clear to us reading Dickinson and Higginson's letters and his own writing, that Emily is the far brighter light of the two writers. Even at the very start of the relationship, when Dickinson asked for guidance, it was obvious that Dickinson was already the master and Higginson only a luckily-placed writer in a national magazine.
Emily Dickinson's first letter to Thomas Higginson must have come as something as a slap across the head-- he tried his best and they remained friends until Emily's death. He encouraged her and they were friends. But, perhaps there was more that he should have and could have done that he didn't. In his defense, what does one truly do when the universe arrives in a letter?
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
There is no frigate like this book---even after 50 years
By Owl
What claims can a 50-year old edition of "Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson" have on the attention of readers with access to other books on the poet and other editions, some acclaimed highly?
Despite the claims of other editions, this remains one of my most beloved books on and by Emily Dickinson, although it is not without its limitations. It has gotten scarce shelf space because included in one, easy-to-carry book are three significant aspects of this cherished poet. These are
--THE HIGGINSON ARTICLE: Thomas Wentworth Higginson's account of "his correspondence with the poet and his visit with her in Amherst" is given first. Higginson, among many other things, was in 1862 a Unitarian clergyman and "rising young man of letters" when he published an essay in The Atlantic encouraging young poets. Over his doorstep came the blaze of a thousand suns, a packet of unique poems and a letter from a young poet, asking if "my verse is alive." Over 20 years, they corresponded & eventually, Higginson became one of the few people outside the family who actually met Emily Dickinson and wrote about it.
--A FINE SELECTION OF POEMS: Two hundred pages of Dickinson's poems are offered, selected by Editor Robert N. Linscott as "among the best" of her work. His choice includes many beautiful-and-familiar poems and many poems unknown-to-me until I read them here. Some, using Dickinson's words, immediately "make the hair on my head stand on end"---her way of knowing poetry. Some were fascinating but to-me more obscure (see my next comment) initially. All have a wild magic, and Linscott did his work well.
--A SELECTION OF HER LETTERS: Recent biographies such as "My Wars Are Laid Away in Books" have brilliantly described the complex & fraught relationships in the apparently quiet homes where Dickinson, her sister Lavinia, and her parents lived next door to her brother Austin and his wife, whom Dickinson loved. We now can place many of the poems---both obscure and not---in the settings/circumstances when they were written & they become even more amazing expressions of mind & heart.
The third benefit of this edition is a precursor to such biographical riches: a selection of letters from Emily from her school-girl years to May 14, 1888. This was the day before she died, when she wrote, "Little cousins Called Back Emily"
Two further claims on our attention are the cover by acclaimed artist Leonard Baskin and the typography by Edward Gorey. Linscott also provides a helpful index of first lines. Readers may applaud what is NOT in this edition. Dickinson did not title her poems. Linscott admirably does not use the first lines as titles; he prints the poems, untitled, as they were written.
Reader Alerts
1. The poems have been edited for more regular punctuation. Some believe the changes enhance readability. To other readers, this destroys much of the meaning and uniqueness. Editor Linscott is quite aware of the debate & references a masterfully edited three-volume edition of ALL the poems reproducing spelling, grammar, and punctuation.
2. More poems keep getting discovered including a recent trove written on the backs of opened envelopes. And in 50 years, there's been much additional scholarship including a complete edition of her letters.
3. This is a mass-market paperback. There are archival quality editions costing more. Readers should expect typical paper quality & binding from this edition. My copy has held up well.
The word "Selected" is key to valuing this book fairly. It is a portable Dickinson that can bring the reader many hours, even years, of deep enjoyment and wonder. As such it could be ideal for readers attracted by a poem or two who want to know more about the poet and read more of her poems affordably. Dickinson scholars may prefer the most recent edition of the complete (700 plus) poems reproducing punctuation or a full-length biography.
SUMMARY: The "Selected Poems & Letters of Emily Dickinson" is highly recommended for what it is, a treat for those who want the Higginson essay, selected letters and haunting poems available inexpensively in a book that could go almost anywhere. The used book prices are as low as a penny. As Dickinson wrote
"There is no frigate like a book
to take us lands away,
Nor any courser like a page
of prancing poetry
This traverse may the poorest take
without oppress of toll
How frugal is the chariot
that bears a human soul."
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