Emily Dickinson's Poems: As She Preserved Them

Overall comments: This book is a treasure trove of Emily Dickinson's poetry. I love that Miller kept to the original writings. She also includes side notes of alternative words that Emily contemplated using. This further expands our understanding and breathes more life into the literature. I do not like when editors change and alter a writer's original script. Miller has certainly aimed to recapture the raw, authentic text. Jacket: Some other reviews state they did not receive the black jacket with artwork as pictured. For me, this was not the case. I am delighted to have received the exact jacket as advertised. I love the design. Dimensions: The book is quite large. I was originally going to take this with me on my morning commute, but it is not practical for transit reading. This is an at-home read that demands the time and attention it rightly deserves.

Emily Dickinson is my favourite poet. She deals with the subconscious, death, ilness, etc - all the big issues in life which we will all experience. Some of her material is funny, unusual - here she is talking about Death who in this poem she sees an an entity. Because I could Not Stop for Death- He Kindly Stopped for me. Note the word KINDLY She uses unusual and powerful language, and she is concerned with the human condition. Powerful,thought provoking, uplifting

Great book. Emily Dickison is one of my all time favourite poets it's fantastic to be able to read many of her poems in origonal form that I have never seen published before . It will take a long time to get through but a must for Emily fans.

A beautiful book. But I thought I was buying a slim volume of poetry. It’s actually as big as a bible. Who knew Emily Dickinson wrote so much!

simply wonderful... if you love poetry this scholarly book will give you endless pleasure and fresh insights into Emily Dickinson's work.

Came in great condition and was just as the picture shows

Amazing book very heavy and brilliant poems! Only downfall is the book wasn’t packed very well so the corners arrived a bit damaged and bent maybe next time use bubble wrap and put it in a cardboard box instead of just a paper bag ? But above all superb poetry !

Arrived safely and undamaged. A wonderful gift for a dear friend, who is v.pleased to own it.

Der Inhalt ist schön gestaltet und das Buch sieht auch sehr schön aus. Leider war der Einband bei Lieferung bereits zerkratzt und auch die Seiten haben von außen rote Flecken. Da das Buch als Geschenk gedacht war bin ich wirklich enttäuscht!! So sollte ein neues Buch nicht aussehen

This is it! If you want only one book presenting all of Emily Dickinson's poems, this is the book for you. I acquired the Johnson one-volume edition ( The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson ) on March 3, 1989, and that was my only Dickinson until I got Shurr's "New Poems" ( New Poems of Emily Dickinson ) on July 12, 1994. Eventually, I acquired the Franklin one-volume edition ( The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition (Belknap) ) on December 13, 2010. Finally, I got this Miller edition on July 21, 2016. The Johnson and Miller editions are the only complete editions that I've read straight through. I spent nine weeks this summer (2016) reading the Miller edition, and I enjoyed every page. The chief difference between Franklin's and Johnson's is the order of the poems: Franklin concluded that Johnson had dated many of the poems wrongly; since each edition presents the poems in roughly chronological order according to the editor's best judgement, the order of poems in Franklin's book differs markedly from that of Johnson's. Miller's differs even more dramatically in the order of the poems: Miller generally accepts Franklin's dating of the poems, but presents them in five sections based on how Emily "preserved them". The first section presents the poems that Emily herself had assembled into little booklets called fascicles; the second section presents poems that Emily herself had saved on "unbound sheets" joined together with a brass fastener (though we don't know whether Emily herself did the fastening); the third section presents "loose poems" that Emily had kept in her possession; the fourth section presents "poems transcribed by others" for which no manuscript in Emily's hand has been found; finally, the fifth and last section presents "poems not retained" by the poet herself but given to others. The first three sections are by far the longest, and a majority of the poems appear in the first two sections. One wouldn't go far wrong getting any of the three complete editions -- Johnson, Franklin, or Miller. I think Miller's is best, though, in three respects. First, simply because most of the poems are presented by Miller in fairly small groups (sheets, leaves) whereas the only division of poems in Johnson's and Franklin's books are by year, which makes for a run-on effect after reading for a while. Second, Miller also presents variant readings -- alternative lines and words written by the poet herself on the manuscript pages. (Thus, we get the most significant aspects of a "variorum" edition in a reader's edition.) Third, Miller footnotes to whom (if anyone) the poet shared each poem and provides some helpful annotation about possible sources, references, and allusions, in endnotes. Miller's index of first lines provides the Johnson and Franklin numbers for cross-referencing those older complete editions; alas, though, she provides no numbering system for the poems in her own edition, a deliberate choice that I think was imprudent. (I myself have resorted to referring to the poems in Miller's edition by page and poem number. For instance, one of my favorites, "The Life we have is very great", is Johnson # 1162, Franklin # 1178, and Miller "number" 707.3.) A magnificent work of scholarship, and a very enjoyable read. This is it! P.S. This is only the fourth review of this book here: I don't provide many reviews, and this is the first time I've been one of the earliest reviewers.

because it's the total collection of Emily Dickinson's poetry

The book came in good condition, the pages are good. The condition seems very nice, and it's a pretty thick book. It does feel a bit pricier but again, it does contain not only her poems but alooooot of annotations, meaning derivations and it's very interesting to have.

Une édition magnifique des poésies complètes d'Emily Dickinson. Un rare plaisir de parcourir un livre si magnifique. Hélas mon exemplaire est arrivé endommagé, j'ai donc demandé un remplacement (sans frais !) Les pages sont épaisses, la couverture rigide, et les vers, toujours aussi sublimes. A lire absolument.