![]() Poem 1732, which alludes to the deaths of her father and a onetime suitor, illustrates her talent: While some explanatory notes would have been helpful, it's a prodigious collection, showcasing Dickinson's intractable obsession with nature, including death. Johnson's hard-to-find variorum from 1955. Quite a difference from requisite Dickinson entries in literary anthologies: "There's a certain Slant of light," "Wild Nights-Wild Nights!" and "I taste a liquor never brewed." This organization allows a wide-angle view of Dickinson's poetic development, from the sometimes-clunky rhyme schemes of her juvenilia, including valentines she wrote in the early 1850s, to the gloomy, hell-obsessed writings from her last years. ![]() Johnson, a longtime Dickinson scholar, arranged the poems in chronological order as far as could be ascertained (the dates for more than 100 are unknown). Only now is her complete oeuvre-all 1,775 poems-available in its original form, uncorrupted by editorial revision, in one volume. Emily Dickinson proved that brevity can be beautiful. ![]()
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