Poems - Second Series
- Boston: Robert Brothers, 1892
Boston: Robert Brothers, 1892. Second printing. Near Fine. One of 1,000 copies of the second printing (with 1891 on the copyright page and 1892 on the title-page). Publisher's green cloth over white boards decorated in gilt (Myerson's A binding). 230 pp., with the four page facsimile of "Renunciation" in the preliminaries. All edges gilt. An attractive copy, bright and fresh throughout, with just a bit of soiling to boards. Contemporary ink ownership signature to preliminary blank. Near Fine.
"One of the most popular and enigmatic American writers of the nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson wrote almost 1,800 poems. Nevertheless, her work was essentially unknown to contemporary readers since only a handful of poems were published during her lifetime, and a vast trove of her manuscripts was not discovered until after her death in 1886. Often typecast as a recluse who rarely left her Amherst home, Dickinson was, in fact, socially active as a young woman and maintained a broad network of friends and correspondents even as she grew older and retreated into seclusion" (The Morgan Library). Called the "great poet of inwardness" by Joyce Carol Oates and “the best mind to appear among Western poets in nearly four centuries” by Harold Bloom, Dickinson was a master of short-form poetry who deployed metaphors drawn from the natural world to explore experiences of wonder, death and loss, religious faith and doubt, meaning and meaninglessness, and selfhood. Near Fine.
"One of the most popular and enigmatic American writers of the nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson wrote almost 1,800 poems. Nevertheless, her work was essentially unknown to contemporary readers since only a handful of poems were published during her lifetime, and a vast trove of her manuscripts was not discovered until after her death in 1886. Often typecast as a recluse who rarely left her Amherst home, Dickinson was, in fact, socially active as a young woman and maintained a broad network of friends and correspondents even as she grew older and retreated into seclusion" (The Morgan Library). Called the "great poet of inwardness" by Joyce Carol Oates and “the best mind to appear among Western poets in nearly four centuries” by Harold Bloom, Dickinson was a master of short-form poetry who deployed metaphors drawn from the natural world to explore experiences of wonder, death and loss, religious faith and doubt, meaning and meaninglessness, and selfhood. Near Fine.