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Final Harvest: Poems
Though generally overlooked during her lifetime, Emily Dickinson's poetry has achieved acclaim due to her experiments in prosody, her tragic vision and the range of her emotional and intellectual explorations.
Paperback, 352 pages
Published
January 30th 1964
by Back Bay Books
(first published January 1st 1961)
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I own the collection compiled by the eminent Dickinson scholar, Thomas H. Johnson. It is titled Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson’s Poems. Of the 1,775 poems she wrote, Johnson chose a mere 576 to include in this volume. Emily Dickinson’s poetry is a treasure once you become accustomed to her style.
I wonder how many people neglect to read Dickinson, thinking that she is or her writings are nothing but niceties, preciousness, and womanly stuff. Sure she wrote about nature, like her peers of her tim...more
I wonder how many people neglect to read Dickinson, thinking that she is or her writings are nothing but niceties, preciousness, and womanly stuff. Sure she wrote about nature, like her peers of her tim...more
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I am embarrassed to tell people I like Dickinson's poetry. Probably because of that whole spinster lady thing. But there is a darkness to her poetry so seductive and so mysterious. If ever there was a true to life Tennessee Williams character, she would be it.
There is a Complete Volume, but I like finding these smaller collections. I like trying to figure why editors lumped certain poems together.
Dark, dark, dark baby...
"Behind Me—dips Eternity—
Before Me—Immortality—
Myself—the Term between—
Death...more
There is a Complete Volume, but I like finding these smaller collections. I like trying to figure why editors lumped certain poems together.
Dark, dark, dark baby...
"Behind Me—dips Eternity—
Before Me—Immortality—
Myself—the Term between—
Death...more
This is a selection of about one-third of Dickinson’s nearly 1800 poems. I have enjoyed reading it in the months following my reading of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, because these two mid-19th century American poets are giants who complement each other so well. Whitman is expansive and inclusive, brash and generalizing, while Dickinson celebrates the small, the particular. But she far exceeds her traditional stereotype of being gentle, frail, and retiring, at least in her poetical work. Her poems,...more
I am ashamed to admit that I had dismissed Emily Dickinson as some kind of cutesy, greeting card, nature poet prior college when I -- a non-honors student -- managed to sneak into an honors discussion course about her poetry where I quickly gained a new respect for her.
This selection of Emily Dickinson's poems is wonderful except for one omission: the poem "In Winter in my Room," which I handwrote in the back of my copy.
In Winter in my Room
I came upon a Worm --
Pink, lank and warm --
But as he w...more
This selection of Emily Dickinson's poems is wonderful except for one omission: the poem "In Winter in my Room," which I handwrote in the back of my copy.
In Winter in my Room
I came upon a Worm --
Pink, lank and warm --
But as he w...more
Some of the most powerful, hair-raising, dynamic, brutal, vivid, imaginitive, ghostly, intense, sheerly dialectical poetry ever.
She has a knack, not at all uncommon among great writers, to seem accessible and surface-level beautiful while being almost unbearably challenging and provocative once engaged with. A genius, no questions asked.
If I had to bring, like, 5 books with me to the moon I think she would have to accompany whatever else I brought. She stands up to re-reading (really the mos...more
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I bought this just recently
- a selection of 576 poems drawn from all her 1,775 poems
- poems of such startling originality that they were doomed
to obscurity in Dickinson's own lifetime ie. 1830 - 1886.
I have the Faber Complete Poems,so WHY buy this???
I quote: "Here is the best of Emily Dickinson's poetry
- 576 poems that fully and fairly represent not only
the complete range of Dickinson's poetic genius
but also the complexity of her personality, the flucuation
of her mood, and the development o...more
Ahhh, the ultimate existentialist commentary. I have always loved Emily Dickinson's poetry and this book professes to be a compilation of selected poems chosen from ALL of her poems . . . an alleged first. Poems were well organized and accessible, numbered first by the editors running number then in parens the alleged Dickinson running number. The book also, thankfully, comes without any editorial hoohah. You are free to enjoy and interpret.
I read her in many types of voice styles: from stuffy and prude to reading her with a hip hop tone, try it, it's fun!
List of fav. poems:
I. 479
She dealt her pretty words like Blades --
How glittering they shone --
And every One unbared a Nerve
Or wantoned with a Bone --
She never deemed -- she hurt --
That -- is not Steel's Affair --
A vulgar grimace in the Flesh --
How ill the Creatures bear --
To Ache is human -- not polite --
The Film upon the eye
Mortality's old Custom --
Just locking up -- to Die.
II. 4...more
List of fav. poems:
I. 479
She dealt her pretty words like Blades --
How glittering they shone --
And every One unbared a Nerve
Or wantoned with a Bone --
She never deemed -- she hurt --
That -- is not Steel's Affair --
A vulgar grimace in the Flesh --
How ill the Creatures bear --
To Ache is human -- not polite --
The Film upon the eye
Mortality's old Custom --
Just locking up -- to Die.
II. 4...more
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The most complete volume with an excellent essay which includes a discussion of reading the verse. Dates are given for earliest writings to publication date.
Dec 09, 2009
Sylvain
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Recommends it for:
anyone interested in poetry as well as those who should be
Truly one of the finest poets to ever grace this Earth. I've become the annoying person who says, "Ooh... That reminds me of an Emily Dickinson poem!" to anything and everything people say. It's not my fault; the woman covered all of human experience.
I haven't opened this book in years (I don't think I even own a copy at present), but this is the edition in which I first encountered Dickinson seriously, so I feel a great deal of fondness for it. The "final" in the title is laughable now, but back in the 1960s people must have thought, I guess, that there would not be any more editing work to do with this poet. After all, there was a three-volume scholarly edition, a single-volume reader's edition, and this selection. What else could anyone p...more
I'm not a huge fan of poetry but I decide to give this book an opportunity. I read every single poem. Dickinson talks about Nature, God, and Death and yes, she is morbid but she also has poems about life and love. They are worth exploring.
Some were boring, some I paid little attention to but some I read and re-read searching for meaning, repeating it as if it were a song. Some poems ended up inspiring me and I learned tons of new words. Overall it was an experience worth experiencing and a risk...more
Some were boring, some I paid little attention to but some I read and re-read searching for meaning, repeating it as if it were a song. Some poems ended up inspiring me and I learned tons of new words. Overall it was an experience worth experiencing and a risk...more
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Final Harvest : Poems by Emily Z99Johnson (1997)
Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's Poems by Emily Dickinson (1962)
Dec 13, 2010
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This is a one-at-a-time job. She's complex.
The best collection of Dickinson.
I love Emily Dickinson. What I love about her is that her poems are so full and thought out. Ever word contributes to the overall meaning. And she writes about so much more than what the average person thinks she does.
I have read out of this book three different times in my education: sophomore year of high school, senior year of high school, and my Dickinson and Frost class in college.
I have read out of this book three different times in my education: sophomore year of high school, senior year of high school, and my Dickinson and Frost class in college.
Like the stars say.
و او،او پا به پایم آمد
بر قوزکم،سپس بر کفشهایم
مملو مروارید می شد
تا آنجا که به شهر خشک رسیدیم
ناگاه به عظمتی و هیبتی دریا عقب نشست
بر قوزکم،سپس بر کفشهایم
مملو مروارید می شد
تا آنجا که به شهر خشک رسیدیم
ناگاه به عظمتی و هیبتی دریا عقب نشست
I hate the other editions, ie: the editions edited by Higginson and Todd or Dodd or whatever that horrid woman's name was, are trash and Johnson's are the ones that tend to stay closest with ED's OGs.
It's Emily Dickinson! Classic selection of her work. Used as text with class and read by themes: botany; death mainly. Wrote under her influence and found her work inspiring.
Jul 17, 2009
Stephanie
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I used to not really be a Dickinson fan, but now I realize that she's great. Especially the poem "'Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch," - oh, I love it.
Whatever, when I was in 7th grade I decided that I loved Emily Dickinson. I decided to revisit these poems to see if I still do. And I still do.
This book has a wonderful feel; the text is large, the cover is awesome. I have only read every third poem but hope to read all of it some day.
One poem will forever stick with me. "After a great loss..." Nothing else has ever explained that stage of grief and mourning like that passage.
This has a good selection of Emily Dickinson's poetry, the great mixed with the everyday mixed with the ones that make you go "huh?"
I love Emily D! I like that she was so private and that through her poetry people can get a sense of who she really was.
My favorite poet, and all her poems are compiled here.
"pain has an element of Blank-"
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Emily Dickinson was an American poet who, despite the fact that less than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime, is widely considered one of the most original and influential poets of the 19th century.
Dickinson was born to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Aca...more
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“I can wade Grief --
Whole Pools of it --
I'm used to that --
But the least push of Joy
Breaks up my feet --
And I tip -- drunken --
Let no Pebble -- smile --
'Twas the New Liquor --
That was all!”
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Whole Pools of it --
I'm used to that --
But the least push of Joy
Breaks up my feet --
And I tip -- drunken --
Let no Pebble -- smile --
'Twas the New Liquor --
That was all!”
“I lost a world the other day. Has anybody found? You'll know it by the rows of stars around it's forehead bound. A rich man might not notice it; yet to my frugal eye of more esteem than ducats. Oh! Find it, sir, for me!”
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