While Emily Dickinson's poetry was doomed to obscurity due to her striking uniqueness during her lifetime, her daring prose experiments, tragic vision, and the breadth of her intellectual and emotional explorations have since earned her reputation as a poet of the highest calibre.

While Emily Dickinson's poetry was doomed to obscurity due to her striking uniqueness during her lifetime, her daring prose experiments, tragic vision, and the breadth of her intellectual and emotional explorations have since earned her reputation as a poet of the highest calibre.

The reader can view the entire body of work by this extraordinary creative genius, as well as the complexity of her personality, the range of her moods, and the evolution of her style, in this book, which includes the chosen form of each of the 1,775 poems she composed.