Dickinson: Poems: Selected by Peter Washington

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A beautiful hardcover selection of Emily Dickinson’s best-loved, most enduring poems. AN EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY POCKET POET. Virtually unknown as a poet in her lifetime, Emily Dickinson is now recognized as one of the most unaccountably strange and marvelous of the world’s great writers. Unique in their form, their psychic urgency, and their uncanny, crystalline power, her poems represent a mind unlike any other to be found in literature. This Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets hardcover edition of Emily Dickinson collects the most famous and beloved of her poems, and includes an index of first lines. Including: – “”Because I could not stop for death”” – “”Tell all the Truth but tell it slant”” – “”I dwell in Possibility”” – “”I heard a fly buzz – when I died”” – “”Forever – is composed of Nows”” – “”The Fact that Earth is Heaven”” Everyman’s Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a jewel-toned jacket. —- ISBN: 9780679429074