xraysalad's review against another edition
4.0
The poetry is nice, this particular edition a bit lacking in context for the poems for my taste.
decafplease's review
4.0
I didn't know much about Emily Dickinson apart from her poem that starts with '[h]ope is the thing with feathers.' Still I ended up enjoying this remarkable collection of portraits of plants, bees, and seasons, contemplations on friendship and immortality and flashes of perspicacious insight.
Poems I liked:
'She sweeps with many-colored brooms' (fav)
'The Mushroom'
'Problems' (fav)
'It can't be summer -- that got through'
'November'
'I have not told my garden yet'
'Ghosts'
'Who has not found the heaven below'
'I had a guinea golden' (fav)
'The lost thought'
'Griefs'
'Disenchantment'
'Philosophy'
'Power'
'Is bliss, then, such abyss'
'Experience'
'Childish griefs'
'I felt a funeral in my brain'
'The soul should always stand ajar'
'I've got an arrow here'
'Let me not mar that perfect dream'
'The waking year'
'To March'
'Dawn'
'A well'
'Sunset'
'This world is not conclusion'
'They say that "time assuages,"'
Fav lines:
'What mystery pervades a well!
The water lives so far,
Like neighbor from another world
Residing in a jar." (A Well)
'A sloop of amber slips away
Upon an ether sea'
(Sunset)
'The mushroom is the elf of plants' (The Mushroom)
'Bring me the sunset in a cup,
Reckon the morning's flagons up,
And say how many dews;
Tell me how far the morning leaps,
Tell me what time the waver sleeps
Who spun the breadths of blue!" (Problems)
'Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind,
Thy windy will to bear!' (November)
'I have not told my garden yet,
Lest that should conquer me;
I hve not quite the strength now
To break it to the bee.' (VIII)
'One need not be a chamber to be haunted,
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place." (Ghosts)
'You cannot fold a flood
And put it in a drawer, --
Because the winds would find it out,
And tell your cedar floor' (Power)
Poems I liked:
'She sweeps with many-colored brooms' (fav)
'The Mushroom'
'Problems' (fav)
'It can't be summer -- that got through'
'November'
'I have not told my garden yet'
'Ghosts'
'Who has not found the heaven below'
'I had a guinea golden' (fav)
'The lost thought'
'Griefs'
'Disenchantment'
'Philosophy'
'Power'
'Is bliss, then, such abyss'
'Experience'
'Childish griefs'
'I felt a funeral in my brain'
'The soul should always stand ajar'
'I've got an arrow here'
'Let me not mar that perfect dream'
'The waking year'
'To March'
'Dawn'
'A well'
'Sunset'
'This world is not conclusion'
'They say that "time assuages,"'
Fav lines:
'What mystery pervades a well!
The water lives so far,
Like neighbor from another world
Residing in a jar." (A Well)
'A sloop of amber slips away
Upon an ether sea'
(Sunset)
'The mushroom is the elf of plants' (The Mushroom)
'Bring me the sunset in a cup,
Reckon the morning's flagons up,
And say how many dews;
Tell me how far the morning leaps,
Tell me what time the waver sleeps
Who spun the breadths of blue!" (Problems)
'Grant me, O Lord, a sunny mind,
Thy windy will to bear!' (November)
'I have not told my garden yet,
Lest that should conquer me;
I hve not quite the strength now
To break it to the bee.' (VIII)
'One need not be a chamber to be haunted,
One need not be a house;
The brain has corridors surpassing
Material place." (Ghosts)
'You cannot fold a flood
And put it in a drawer, --
Because the winds would find it out,
And tell your cedar floor' (Power)
blakehalsey's review
5.0
There's no match for Dickinson. Her stark, innovative verse is, to me, an essential read for any poet.
rainbow1218's review against another edition
Switching to the unedited version published by Christanne Miller
annafoggetz's review against another edition
emily dickinson just made me love poetry