"My wars are laid away in books."

* Emily Dickinson - Complete Poetry and Letters (20 books)

EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886) was an American poet who lived in seclusion and commanded a singular brilliance of style and integrity of vision.  With Walt Whitman, she is now widely considered to be one of the two leading 19th-century American poets.

Fewer than a dozen of her nearly 1,800 poems were published during her lifetime.  The work that was published was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time.  Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; she freely ignored the usual rules of versification and even of grammar, and in the intellectual content of her work she likewise proved exceptionally bold and original.  Her verse is distinguished by its epigrammatic compression, haunting personal voice, enigmatic brilliance, and lack of high polish.  Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends, and also explore aesthetics, society, nature, and spirituality.

THE LETTERS OF EMILY DICKINSON (2024), edited by Cristanne Miller and Domhnall Mitchell, is the first collected edition of the poet's correspondence since 1958.  It presents all 1,304 of her extant letters, along with the small number available from her correspondents.  Almost 300 are previously uncollected, including letters published after 1958, letters more recently discovered in manuscript, and more than 200 "letter-poems" that Dickinson sent to correspondents without accompanying prose.

Emily Dickinson is today considered a powerful and persistent figure in American culture.  Although much of the early reception concentrated on Dickinson's eccentric and secluded nature, she has become widely acknowledged as an innovative, proto-modernist poet.  As early as 1891, William Dean Howells wrote that "If nothing else had come out of our life but this strange poetry, we should feel that in the work of Emily Dickinson, America, or New England rather, had made a distinctive addition to the literature of the world, and could not be left out of any record of it."


The following books are in ePUB and/or PDF format as noted:

== POETRY ==

* Collected Poems (Barnes & Noble, 2003) – ePUB
* Collected Poems (First Avenue, 2016) – ePUB
* Complete Poems [ed. Johnson] (Little Brown, 1960) – PDF
* Emily Dickinson [ed. Hughes] (Faber, 2011) – ePUB
* Emily Dickinson's Poems - As She Preserved Them [ed. Miller] (Harvard, 2016) – PDF
* Envelope Poems (New Directions, 2016) – ePUB
* Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: The Complete Poems (Gibbs Smith, 2019) – ePUB
* My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun ( Penguin, 2016) – ePUB
* New Poems of Emily Dickinson, rev'd [ed. Shurr et al.] (North Carolina, 2014) – ePUB
* Poetry for Kids (Quarto, 2016) – PDF
* Selected Poems [intr. Billy Collins] (Modern Library, 2012) – ePUB

== LETTERS ==

* Letters of Emily Dickinson [ed. Miller & Mitchell] (Harvard, 2024) – PDF
* Letters of Emily Dickinson [ed. Todd] (Dover, 2003) – ePUB
* Letters of Emily Dickinson, 3 vols. [ed. Johnson] (Harvard, 1965) – PDF
* Open Me Carefully: Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson (Wesleyan, 2019) – ePUB
* Selected Letters [ed. Johnson] (Harvard, 1971) – PDF

== SECONDARY ==

* Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries [Helen Vendler] (Harvard, 2010) – PDF^

* My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson [A. Habegger] (Random House, 2001) – ePUB

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