The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Języki, Angielski, History, Literature, Culture
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The
Poems
of
Emily
Dickinson
With an Introduction by
Martha Dickinson Bianchi
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The Poems of Emily Dickinson
Contents
Introduction ............................................ 5
Part One: Life .......................................... 9
Part Two: Nature .................................... 80
Part Three: Love ................................... 143
Part Four: Time and Eternity ............... 172
Part Five: The Single Hound ................ 236
Index of First Lines .............................. 287
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The Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830(1830-12-10) lived almost
all of her life in her family's houses in Amherst, which has been
preserved as the Emily Dickinson Museum. She was educated at
the nearby Amherst Academy, a former boys' school which had
opened to female students just two years earlier. She studied En-
glish and classical literature, learning Latin and reading the
Aeneid
over several years, and was taught in other subjects including reli-
gion, history, mathematics, geology, and biology.
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1924.
Introduction
T
HE
POEMS
OF
E
MILY
D
ICKINSON
, published in a series of three vol-
umes at various intervals after her death in 1886, and in a volume
entitled
The Single Hound
, published in 1914, with the addition of
a few before omitted, are here collected in a final complete edition.
In them and in her
Life and Letters
, recently presented in one inclu-
sive volume, lives all of Emily Dickinson—for the outward circum-
stance matters little, nor is this the place for discussion as to whether
fate ordained her or she ordained her own foreordination. Many of
her poems have been reprinted in anthologies, selections, textbooks
for recitation, and they have increasingly found their elect and been
best interpreted by the expansion of those lives they have seized
upon by force of their natural, profound intuition of the miracles
of everyday Life, Love, and Death. She herself was of the part of life
that is always youth, always magical. She wrote of it as she grew to
know it, step by step, discovery by discovery, truth by truth—until
time merely became eternity. She was preëminently the discoverer—
eagerly hunting the meaning of it all; this strange world in which
she wonderingly found herself,—“A Balboa of house and garden,”
surmising what lay beyond the purple horizon. She lived with a
God we do not believe in, and trusted in an immortality we do not
deserve, in that confiding age when Duty ruled over Pleasure be-
fore the Puritan became a hypocrite. Her aspect of Deity,—as her
intimation,—was her own,—unique, peculiar, unimpaired by the
brimstone theology of her day. Her poems reflect this direct rela-
tion toward the great realities we have later avoided, covered up, or
tried to wipe out; perhaps because were they really so great we be-
come so small in consequence. All truth came to Emily straight
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