The startling originality of Emily Dickinson's style condemned her poetry to obscurity during her lifetime but her bold experiments in prosody her tragic vision & the range of her intellectual & emotional explorations have since won her international recognition as a poet of the highest order The Complete Poems is the only one-volume edition containing all of Emily Dickinson's verse In this landmark edition the editor Thomas H Johnson has presented the poems in their original contexts; & where alternate readings were suggested he has chosen only those which the poet evidently preferred His introduction
Includes:: a brief explanation of his selection of texts as well as an outline of Emily Dickinson's career