About the Book

From the introduction by Joyce Carol Oates:

Between them, our great visionary poets of the American nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, have come to represent the extreme, idiosyncratic poles of the American psyche. . . .

Dickinson never shied away from the great subjects of human suffering, loss, death, even madness, but her perspective was intensely private; like Rainer Maria Rilke and Gerard Manley Hopkins, she is the great poet of inwardness, of the indefinable region of the soul in which we are, in a sense, all alone.

Product Details

• ISBN: 9780060887957
• ISBN 10: 0060887958
• Imprint: Ecco
• On Sale: 03/14/2006
• Trimsize: 4.500 in (w) x 7.120 in (h) x 0.680 in (d)
• Pages: 272
• List Price: $12.99
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