Top 5 Books By Emily Dickinson That You Must Read

List of 5 best books written by Emily Dickinson. Check out the booklist.

1. 100 Selected Poems, Emily Dickinson

Dickinson did not give titles to her poems. They are known either by the first line of the poem or the numbers allotted to them in the Thomas H. Johnson’s edition, the poems of Emily Dickinson. We have used the numbers to identify the poems. A Specimen of her exquisite craftsmanship, each poem gives an insight into dickinson’s life and the emotions she experienced.

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2. Emily Dickinson: Complete Poems

In 2016, Terence Davies released A Quiet Passion, a biographical film about the life of Emily Dickinson. The film stars Cynthia Nixon as the reclusive poet. It co-stars Emma Bell as young Dickinson, Jennifer Ehle, Duncan Duff and Keith Carradine.

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3. Envelope Poems

Full-color facsimiles are accompanied by Marta L. Werner and Jen Bervin’s pioneering transcriptions of Dickinson’s handwriting. Their transcriptions allow us to read the texts, while the facsimiles let us see exactly what Dickinson wrote (the variant words, crossings-out, dashes, directional fields, spaces, columns, and overlapping planes).

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4. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

This book, which includes the preferred form of each of the 1,775 poems that she wrote, enables the reader to see as a whole the work of this remarkable poetic genius, the complexity of her personality, the fluctuation of her moods and the development of her style.