books about: dickinson     books:       The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition11 reviews Emily Dickinson Belknap Press, 2005 One of the most important poetry collections available If you know Dickinson's compositional method -- with almost no publication in her lifetime, often with many versions of one poem, and with poetic significance altered by the paper and exact handwriting -- you will recognize that any printed edition of her work cannot be perfect. Still, Franklin has worked with care, intelligence, scholarship, and order on finding the best renditions of her poems, ...             My Emily Dickinson (New Directions Paperbook)5 reviews Susan Howe New Directions, 2007 If you think you know Emily... This is a serious and personal literary study of Dickinson's work by a scholar and fellow poet who appreciates both the art and the attitude of one of her American literary forebears. Howe points out how Dickinson's poetry has been overlooked in light of her character and biography. It seems that in the 19th century, it was remarkable for a woman to be a poet at all, let alone write original, ...             White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson4 reviews Brenda Wineapple Knopf, 2008 Even unpublished writers need validation At first glance, even from the old photos, they seem like vastly different people. Thomas Wentworth Higginson was a man of various talents. He was a well-traveled writer, yes; but he was also involved in public service and the reform movement, and he was intent on seeking out a certain amount of fame and celebrity for himself. Emily Dickinson was the quintessential homebody who saw the world ...             Federal Income Tax: Code and Regulations--Selected Sections (2008-2009) CCH, Inc., 2008 CCH's Federal Income Tax: Code and Regulations--Selected Sections provides a selection of the Internal Revenue Code and Treasury Regulations pertaining to income tax. This popular volume reflects the collective judgment of seven distinguished tax teachers and provides an effective mix of official materials for individual and business undergraduate and graduate tax courses offered in law and business schools. It provides in one volume, the ...             The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson49 reviews Emily Dickinson Back Bay Books, 1976 Great collection of poetry! Dickinson is probably the one poet who best personifies mood, emotion, fears, hopes, dreams, and time and eternity with such few words and in the most illustrative way. Most of her subjects are ones we readily identify with--love, death, nature, religion, passage of time. Her ability to make so much out of so little is truly a gift, and, while her poetry can be a little hard to grasp at first, it ...             Emily Dickinson: Selected Letters3 reviews Emily Dickinson Belknap Press, 2006 Essential Piece of the Dickinson Puzzle An appraisal of this great figure's work is incomplete without a good look at these selected letters. As fascinating to the Dickinson scholar as they are to the casual enthusiast, Dickinson's letters -- along with those of Keats or Hopkins -- prove that this is every bit as legitimate a genre as fiction or poetry. Some of Dickinson's most gorgeous and enduring statements are here, and to read ...             The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)2 reviews Emily Dickinson Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003 A Great poet and a great intellectual: Beautiful words from a beautiful woman: Emily Dickinson's expressional language of yesteryear is still the je ne sais quoi of today. The genius that comes forth from her consciousness seems rather simplistic at first, but when you truly contemplate her writing style true enlightenment develops in what is called the dimensions of humanity. These dimensions consist of the soul (psyche,) the spirit (nous,) and the body (soma). I don't ...             No Lifeguard on Duty: The Accidental Life of the World's First Supermodel96 reviews Janice Dickinson HarperEntertainment, 2003 Wow! Janice got down, dirty, and honest with this book in her tough journey to fame. However, she is an amazing woman who has survived much in life, while doing her best to thrive. Kudos Janice! Thank you for sharing a part of you with us all! A MUST read for everyone! Merna Throne Pocket of Pearls: A 30-day pocket workbook to start hearing a softer voice inside of you!             Essential Dickinson (Essential Poets)1 review Emily Dickinson Ecco, 2006 A little light/ a slant concealed/ Emily D's/ soul revealed Emily Dickison is one of the world's most memorable poets. This selection of her writing introduces us into her epigrammatic visionary verse-. There could not be a more appropriate person to introduce Emily, than another haunted inhabit of the deep literary imagination- Joyce Carol Oates. Dickinson's verse stings and remains seared in the mind . It touches earth and tries Heaven in oblique ...             The Life of Emily Dickinson8 reviews Richard B. Sewall Harvard University Press, 1998 Great for College Courses Emily Dickinson is easily my favorite poet (also see my review on "Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson", which every poetry lover should own). I took a college course that focused on Emily Dickinson and these were the two books used for that course (there were optional books, which I also read, but nowhere near as good as these). The author's analysis of some poems can be questioned (whose ...             Goodnight Sweet Prince8 reviews David Dickinson Soho Constable, 2008 Colorful bunch British royal family was always a colorful bunch. In comparisson with their ancestors, today's Windsors are a pretty tame group. Prince Eddie, the grandson of Queen Victoria was very often a subject of speculation and rumor. Some even suspected him of being Jack the Ripper. In this fictional account, the untimely death of Prince Eddy is not influenza but murder. Is it truth or not nobody realy ...             The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Modern Library Classics)6 reviews Emily Dickinson Modern Library, 2004 You gotta buy this book. This book is awesome! Everyone should buy it.             The Master Letters of Emily Dickinson1 review Emily Dickinson University of Massachusetts Press, 1998 Charming, intimate letters of Emily Dickinson This is a short but charming book from Amherst College Press, published for the centennial of Emily Dickinson?s 1886 death, edited with an introduction and manuscript comments by R. W. Franklin. Ralph Franklin is arguably the best current Dickinson manuscript scholar and also edited ?The Poems of Emily Dickinson?, to my eyes the current definitive edition of Dickinson. The Master Letters ...             Emily Dickinson's Poems B&R Samizdat Express, 2007 All three series. (Reformatted 2/24/2008, to eliminate problems caused by Kindle's automated conversion program and to add a brief table of contents with links to each of the three series. If you bought an earlier copy, you should be able to get the new corrected one from Amazon at no extra charge -- it has the same product number).             Selected Poems (Dover Thrift Edition)5 reviews Emily Dickinson Dover Publications, 1990 This is not really the edition you want. I don't doubt that it's possible to enjoy Emily Dickinson's poems in editions like this. But you should be aware that you are not really reading what she wrote. You are reading what earlier editors _wish_ she had written - a sort of 'tidied-up' and regularized version, a badly-tampered-with-text of a genius by those who weren't. In a way, the situation is a bit like the one that prevails with ...             The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson (Cambridge Companions to Literature)1 review Cambridge University Press, 2002 Celebrate 177 years of Emily Dickinson It's hard to exaggerate the importance of Emily Dickinson's poetry, as we mark her 177th birthday (born December 10, 1830, Amherst, Massachusetts). But is this poet well understood, and are her birthdays and other important dates even recognized other than by those already devoted to her? One editorial reviewer for Amazon of the Cambridge Companion makes a key mistake-stating that she is one of ...             The Passion of Emily Dickinson3 reviews Judith Farr Harvard University Press, 1998 And all my House aglow (638) Thirty years ago, I read ED in school, a few poems chosen for high school students, scrubbed by the sensibilities of that time and rural place. My remembered impression was of a strange recluse who wrote of flowers and death. On word of friends, I came to remake her acquaintance, and found passion, unconventional explorations, and wide knowledge of her moment. That a woman so contained in space ...             The Emily Dickinson Handbook3 reviews University of Massachusetts Press, 2005 Don't pass this one up! It's a gem! THE EMILY DICKINSON HANDBOOK : Edited by Gudrun Grabher, Roland Hagenbuchle, and Cristanne Miller. 480 pp. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. ISBN 1-55849-169-4 (hbk.) For anyone who is seriously interested in Emily Dickinson, this is a marvelous book that provides up-to-date information about her life and works, her letters and manuscripts, the cultural climate of her age, her ...             Check, Please!: Dating, Mating, and Extricating13 reviews Janice Dickinson HarperEntertainment, 2007 Outlandish, Outrageous Fun A FUN Read. The sub-title says it's about Dating, Mating and Extricating. But I wouldn't take it too seriously. Sure, it's fine if you're a rich, six foot, supermodel with a body that's the very best example of what high priced plastic surgeons can build. Instead just read it for fun, in the same way we like to see the super houses of the rich and fameous. And fun it is. It's a ...             Everything About Me Is Fake-- And I'm Perfect52 reviews Janice Dickinson ReganBooks, 2004 the best, hilarious! This book is so good! You either love her or hate her, if you love her, read this book! I love her sarcasim, bold, blunt, funny personality. I loved the first book and I love this one as well. She is not just some obnoxious woman and if you cannot think past that thought and see her as a whole, dont read it. 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