The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Emily Dickinson
- First Published: 1960
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Love or romance, Gender roles, Nature, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Literature, Poetry or poets, Women, Death or dying, Conformity, Life, philosophy of, Romanticism, Psychoanalysis or psychoanalysts
Form and Content
Seventy-four years after Emily Dickinson’s death, all of her existing poems were gathered into the single volume The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, a text that represents one woman’s rebellion against her patriarchal society’s institutions and literary conventions. After the poet’s death on May 15, 1886, her sister Lavinia began the customary burning of the deceased’s papers but stopped when she discovered the locked wooden box that contained the forty handmade volumes of Dickinson’s poems, fifteen sets of unbound volumes, and hundreds of...
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