New Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson
Hoewel ze nooit trouwde onderhield ze een aantal intieme vriendschappen, met name met de (getrouwde) dominee Charles Wadsworth die volgens velen degene was die haar inspireerde tot haar liefdesgedichten, en met Thomas Wentworth Higginson, een vooraanstaande literaire figuur met wie ze vanaf 1862 correspondeerde en aan wie ze veel gedichten stuurde. Hij raadde publicatie af, maar herkende wel onmiddellijk de kwaliteit van haar werk. Tijdens Emily Dickinsons leven verschenen uiteindelijk slechts zeven gedichten in druk: toen ze stierf in 1886, 56 jaar oud, liet ze 1775 gedichten na Op bol.com vind je alle boeken van Emily Dickinson.
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For most of her life Emily Dickinson regularly embedded poems, disguised as prose, in her lively and thoughtful letters. Although many critics have commented on the poetic quality of Dickinson’s letters, William Shurr is the first to draw fully developed poems from them. In this remarkable volume, he presents nearly 500 new poems that he and his associates excavated from her correspondence, thereby expanding the canon of Dickinson’s known poems by almost one-third and making a remarkable addition to the study of American literature. Here are new riddles and epigrams, as well as longer lyrics that have never been seen as poems before. While Shurr has reformatted passages from the letters as poetry, a practice Dickinson herself occasionally followed, no words, punctuation, or spellings have been changed. Shurr points out that these new verses have much in common with Dickinson’s well-known poems: they have her typical punctuation (especially the characteristic dashes and capitalizations); they use her preferred hymn or ballad meters; and they continue her search for new and unusual rhymes. Most of all, these poems continue Dickinson’s remarkable experiments in extending the boundaries of poetry and human sensibility.
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