Fifty Poems of Emily Dickinson, Volume I

Version: Abridged
Author: Emily Dickinson
Narrator: Meryl Streep , Stephanie Beacham
Genres: Poetry
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Date: December 2007
Length: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Ratings:
Formats :
  • CD
Tell Your Friends:

Hot Titles

  • Fall of Giants

    by Ken Follett

    • Book Rating: 4/5

  • A Discovery of Witches

    by Deborah E. Harkness

    • Book Rating: 3.5/5

Overview

Emily Dicknson today is gaining her deserved place alongside Walt Whitman as one of the two greatest American poets of the nineteenth century. Beginning always with particulars of personal experience, her poems encompass life and death, love and longing,

Author Details

Author Details

Dickinson, Emily

Known as "The Myth of Amherst" for her withdrawal from society while still a young women, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) had an inner life that was deeply emotional and intense. She know rapture and despair, pondered the wonder of God and the meaning of death. She broke tradition and was criticized for her seminal experiments with unorthodox phrasing, rhyme and broken meter, within concise verse forms, thus becoming an innovator and forerunner of modern poets.