num_pages: 79
description: SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JOYCE CAROL OATESBetween 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.
language: English
title: The Essential Emily Dickinson
publisher: Ecco