{"product_id":"dickinson-selected-poems-and-commentaries-paperback","title":"Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHelen Vendler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised \u003cb\u003eHelen Vendler\u003c\/b\u003e as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson. As she did in \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets\u003c\/i\u003e, she serves as an incomparable guide, considering both stylistic and imaginative features of the poems. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn selecting these poems for commentary Vendler chooses to exhibit many aspects of Dickinson's work as a poet, \"from her first-person poems to the poems of grand abstraction, from her ecstatic verses to her unparalleled depictions of emotional numbness, from her comic anecdotes to her painful poems of aftermath.\" Included here are many expected favorites as well as more complex and less often anthologized poems. Taken together, Vendler's selection reveals Emily Dickinson's development as a poet, her astonishing range, and her revelation of what Wordsworth called \"the history and science of feeling.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn accompanying commentaries Vendler offers a deeper acquaintance with Dickinson the writer, \"the inventive conceiver and linguistic shaper of her perennial themes.\" All of Dickinson's preoccupations--death, religion, love, the natural world, the nature of thought--are explored here in detail, but Vendler always takes care to emphasize the poet's startling imagination and the ingenuity of her linguistic invention. Whether exploring less familiar poems or favorites we thought we knew, Vendler reveals Dickinson as \"a master\" of a revolutionary verse-language of immediacy and power. Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries will be an indispensable reference work for students of Dickinson and readers of lyric poetry.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHelen Vendler is A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 560\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.2 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 29, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51756892619040,"sku":"9780674066380","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f2c6952810a3db5a71bfdc8a76e54a67.webp?v=1780088533","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/dickinson-selected-poems-and-commentaries-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}