Easton Press: EMILY DICKINSON: POEMS: AMHERST, MASSACHUSETTS

Description: Easton Press leather edition of "Poems of Emily Dickinson," a COLLECTOR'S edition, Selected, Edited with a Commentary by LOUIS UNTERMEYER, Illustrated by Helen Sewell, one of the 100 GREATEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN series, published in 2005. Bound in hunter green leather, the book has camel tan French moire silk end leaves, hubbed spine, acid-free paper, Symth-sewn binding, a satin book marker, gold gilding on three edges---in FINE condition. Emily Dickinson, who lived from 1830-1886, was born and lived her entire life in Amherst, Massachusetts, a rural and remote community. Her father was a respected lawyer and congressman. She studied at Amherst Academy and the Female Seminary in nearby Hadley. Considered an eccentric by locals, in her mid-twenties, she began to withdraw from the world and her poems became her passion. She began wearing white clothing and became known for her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, to even leave her bedroom. Dickinson never married, and most friendships between her and others depended entirely upon correspondence. While Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly 1,800 poems were published during her lifetime. Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation. Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends. Dickinson, through her poetry, attempted to solve the riddle of existence. Her poems deal with the soul, the benevolence of God, and her search for faith. She stopped attending "divine worship" about age 30, and her eccentric ways were well known to her small circle of friends. This volume includes her well-known poems, including: "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," "A narrow Fellow in the Grass," "A Coffin---is a small Domain," "Faith" is a fine invention," "Dare you see a Soul at the White Heat," "Bee! I'm expecting you," "Hope" is the thing with feathers," "I dreaded that first Robin, so," "I dwell in possibility," "Jesus! thy Crucifix," "I'm Nobody! Who are you," "Safe in their Alabaster Chambers," "The Butterfly in honored Dust," "The Poets light but Lamps," "I died for Beauty---but was scarce," "Doom is the House without the Door," "I head a Fly buzz--when I died," and one of my favorites: "Some keep the Sabbath going to Church." 270 Pages, including an Alphabetic Listing of those poems which have titles and an Index of First Lines. I offer Combined shipping.

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