The subject of these poems are as wide-ranging as their author's life was constrained: beginning always with particulars of personal experience, her poems encompassed life and death, love and longing, joyfulness and sorrow. With spare, precise language, she conveyed a penetrating vision of the natural world and an acute understanding of the most profound human truths.
This edition collects the first four volumes of Emily Dickinson's, representing the breadth of the poet's themes and moods. Accompanying the poems are modern appraisals of her work, bringing fresh perspective to these classic poems.
