The startling originality of Emily Dickinson`s style doomed her poetry to obscurity during her lifetime but her bold experiments in prose, her tragic vision and the range of her intellectual and emotional explorations have since won her recognition as a poet of the highest order.
This book, which includes the preferred form of each of the 1,775 poems that she wrote, enables the reader to see as a whole the work of this remarkable poetic genius, the complexity of her personality, the fluctuation of her moods and the development of her style