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New Poems of Emily Dickinson

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Condition
Very Good
A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, with the dust jacket included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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“May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend ...
Binding
Hardcover
Weight
1 lbs
Product Group
Book
IsTextBook
Yes
ISBN
9780807821152

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
ISBN-10
0807821152
ISBN-13
9780807821152
eBay Product ID (ePID)
483027

Product Key Features

Book Title
New Poems of Emily Dickinson
Number of Pages
136 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1993
Topic
General, American / General
Genre
Poetry
Author
William H. Shurr
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
10 oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
93-020353
Synopsis
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., This three-volume collection of correspondence between a father and a son documents 18th-century America through the intimate story of a Maryland family and the journey from boyhood to political prominence of its most illustrious member, Charles Carroll o
LC Classification Number
PS1541.A6 1993

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