Author: Emily Dickinson
Narrator: Marian Seldes
Unabridged: 1 hr 5 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 10/01/2013
Categories: Nonfiction, Literary Collections
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. Throughout her life, she seldom left her house, and visitors were scarce. The people with whom she did come in contact, however, had an enormous impact on her thoughts and poetry. By the 1860s, she lived in almost total physical isolation from the outside world but actively maintained many correspondences and read widely. Her poetry reflects her loneliness, and the speakers of her poems generally live in a state of want, but her poems are also marked by the intimate recollection of inspirational moments which are decidedly life-giving and suggest the possibility of happiness. The first volume of her work was published posthumously in 1890 and the last in 1955.
Emily Dickinson is one of my favourite poets; she is the gothic queen of poetry. At times she strongly reminds me of Edgar Allan Poe. Her poems are less macabre than Poe’s and certainly less fantastical, focusing more on human perception of the darkness and the realities of life, but her work is und......more
1 Because I could not stop for Cops They kindly Stopped for Me The Roadblocks covered all three lanes Perfect Symmetry 2 A narrow Fellow - in the grass With one eyed – snake – and smile You may have met him – did you not The local – paedo – phile 3 I heard a Boy-Band - when I died The Radio - was on And rushing......more