Emily Dickinson's Poems

By Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (editor),

Book cover of Emily Dickinson's Poems: As She Preserved Them

Book description

Widely considered the definitive edition of Emily Dickinson's poems, this landmark collection presents her poems here for the first time "as she preserved them," and in the order in which she wished them to appear. It is the only edition of Dickinson's complete poems to distinguish clearly those she took…


Shepherd is reader supported. When you buy books, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Why read it?

1 author picked Emily Dickinson's Poems as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Dickinson isn’t always Gothic, but many of her best and best-known poems revolve around that central Gothic question: what is it like to be dead?

Poems beginning with lines like “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died,” “Because I could not stop for Death,” “If I may have it, when it’s Dead,” and “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” play along the boundary between the living and the dead and ask uncomfortable questions about the afterlife, such as whether there is one.

It’s surely no coincidence that her creative peak coincided with the Civil War. But what makes Dickinson…

Want books like Emily Dickinson's Poems?

Our community of 10,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like Emily Dickinson's Poems.

Browse books like Emily Dickinson's Poems

5 book lists we think you will like!

Interested in African Americans, women, and writing?

10,000+ authors have recommended their favorite books and what they love about them. Browse their picks for the best books about African Americans, women, and writing.

African Americans Explore 729 books about African Americans
Women Explore 588 books about women
Writing Explore 59 books about writing