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...

This is the first time I've read this straight through, instead of picking around. Many of the poems were new to me. I was a little surprised at how many were about death. I suppose I should have known. I'm hesitant to say much more, because I'm still thinking about it all. I did like it very much, though.

Still don't love E.D. but I can appreciate why others do. Value from me is her views of the CT River Valley and generally, the natural landscape of New England in the 1800s. I just wish she got out more :)

It took me two months to make it through this 320pg book: a collection of 575 of Dickinson's best poems. Only after I read a biography of her (Richard Sewall's) and only after I was a third of the way through this book did my brain finally "get" how to read her and receive her.When I read a book I feel like I spend time with the author. For me, spending time with Emily is awe-inspiring, scary, gut-wrenching, humbling, breathtaking, and fascinating. There's something very other-worldly about her

Hard to do justice to the variety of thoughts I have about Dickinson in this format, and I hope to write something more extended on her at some point. There is so much to be amazed by in her work. The subtlety of her linguistic dexterity astounds. Her metaphors are so imaginative and unusual that it often takes me going over a phrase over-and-over again that I initially casually read before I'm able to grasp what she's doing. The thematic content is equally wonderful. Her reckoning with spiritua...

122 (numbers differ with editors and editions) is one of my favorites. Eta: While I was rereading Final Harvest, the book, dating from my college days, fell apart at the spine. S. noted my distress, and today, I received an incredibly wonderful gift of a first edition The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (my attempts to add a bit of html coding here are not meeting with success). In this edition, Poem 122 is Poem 341. The inscription from S., with reference to a certain poem, I shall not reveal...

"Still waters run deep." Much about flowers, birds, bees, and always the grave, death, and eternity. In 'Final Harvest', a carefully observed natural world emerges in which art and the individual creative force is admired and considerable, but God always reigns supreme in the poetry of Emily Dickinson. The quiet life can be fierce indeed.

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...

The imagery that Emily brings is really something and quite beautiful, but I am not a fan of the cadence of her poetry. The lyrical timber of them feels off to me and I am not a fan of how they read.

I admit upfront that I don't consider myself much of a poetry person, but I also feel like I gave this far more consideration than anyone else would have.If anything turned me off the most it was the extensive use of near-rhymes. I have no problems with non-rhyming poetry, but if you can't just approximate rhymes and expect it to work. At least for me, following an ABAB with an ABAJ clangs like a rusted church bell. It's one thing if you aren't rhyming from the beginning, but when you set an exp...

Qué poemas más hermosos, la elegancia, la rima, la profundidad. Este libro es para el alma. La mejor forma de terminar un año y empezar otro. Totalmente recomendado. Dickinson era una genio tierna."I have no Life but this - To lead it here - Nor any Death - but lest Dispelled from there - Nor tie to Earths to come - Nor action new - Except through this extent - The Realm of you -"

Always a great author to choose for poems that touch your soul.

I'm going to assume that if you're reading this you've gotten past, or better, never encountered the "mousy little recluse whose poems can be sung to the Yellow Rose of Texas" approach to Dickinson (which, sadly was common when I was in high school.) The fact is that Dickinson is existentially searching, often bleak as hell, tormented in her grappling with God, and one of the most innovative formal thinkers in the American (or far as I know any other) tradition. Not to mention, as Adrienne Rich

I feel like that 3 is pretty generous and it's only given because there are some really great poems in here. But for the most part, no one's lying when they say that Emily Dickinson has been highly overrated as a poet. She's okay. She's written a few amazing poems, some great ones, but mostly average-good ones.

No one like her, no voice like hers, no wonder we're still trying to parse her out, catch up to her, catch the hem of her garment. Eternity's disclosureTo favorites - a few -Of the Colossal substanceOf Immorality Thank you, Emily.

mrs emily d does not disappoint! i have never read dickinson and i’ve seen enough snippets to decide to pick up an anthology of her work at the library. i think what makes me so curious about her is the mystery around the author being the og hermit. i really enjoyed her poems that focused on death as they felt like the most profound to me. i think there is a lot that can be unpacked with each of the poems which makes it great for discussion and discerning your own truths. i docked her a star bec...

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

I always try to shatter an unbookish and usually very compulsive and unavoidable break on my part with a piece of poetry. This happens sometimes coincidently and sometimes premeditated. This time it was purely coincidental.This book I got in my hand today and I read it.She is As Fresh as Always!She rejuvenates me whenever I am in low spirits.I will only share these lines, Have you got a Brook in your little heart,Where bashful flowers blow,And blushing birds go down to drink, And Shadows tremble...

I grew up with Emily Dickinson. I mean her house was nearby in Amherst; I passed it all the time and it was spooky. You had this image of her, right? This is the old vision: a batty old spinster, shut up in her attic, writing her loopy little ditties. She was portrayed as a sort of idiot savant: "Look at what this naif came up with all by herself!" I knew that story when I was very young. I liked her poems when I was very young, too; they work for young people. They're short and rhythmic and the...

A huge collection of chronologically organized poems by Emily Dickinson. What is great about that is you see her artistic progession over the years. Not all poems are great, but the few that are are extraordinary. Dickinson is perhaps the best woman poet in American history.