Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

This Modern Library edition gathers over four hundred of Emily Dickinson’s poems that were published between her death in 1886 and 1900. As a reclusive figure in Amherst, Massachusetts, Dickinson composed a vast body of work that remained largely unpublished during her lifetime, yet these early posthumous selections already reveal the intensity for which she is now celebrated. The collection explores her enduring preoccupations with life, death, love, and nature, capturing what Henry James described as the landscape of the soul.

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