Non-Fiction Book Review - 'The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson'

The big one. 'The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson', containing all of her found poems (presumably). 1,775 of them, in this 716-page tome.

I admit to skimming, but I can still appreciate Emily Dickinson's writings and unappreciated genius for her time. I don't like all of the poems I read all the way through, and, at least in the 1960 edition (edited by Thomas H. Johnson) I bought, they seem to be included in a random order, with absolutely nothing to categorise them or divide them into themed sections - they're just added in. This made for a further difficult read.

But it's Emily Dickinson, one of the greatest female writers and poetesses of the most beautiful, powerful, passionate, poignant, profound, touching, eclectic and wide-range poetry of all time. And lesbian icon.

She sure liked daisies, lilies (all flowers and nature, really), birds, bees, butterflies, angels, the colour purple, and the subject of death (and heaven), didn't she?

My review of 'The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson' can be found here.

Final Score: 3.5/5