Emily Dickinson The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Paperback)

The Selected Poems of Emily DickinsonEmily DickinsonLabel: Wordsworth Editions LtdDescription: With an Introduction by Emma Hartnoll.Initially a vivacious outgoing person Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) progressively withdrew into a reclusive existence. An undiscovered genius during her lifetime only seven out of her total of 1775 poems were published prior to her death. She had an immense breadth of vision and a passionate intensity and awe for life love nature time and eternity.Originally branded an eccentric Emily Dickinson is now recognised as a major poet of great depth startling originality and courage for as she wrote: ‘Assent and you are sane; /Demure you’re straightaway dangerous / And handled with a chain’.