My Life Had Stood a Loaded Gun (Penguin Little Black Classics)

These are the edited versions with changes to the punctuation and capitalisation, thus changing or obscuring the meaning of her poems. For example, the line, "My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun" is changed to "My life had stood a loaded gun". I recommend buying instead the Everyman Poetry collection for a better introduction to her poems. I am unsure why the revised versions are still getting published and why Penguin would choose them. Who is anyone to change how poets write their poems?

good quality pages, small book so easy to carry around and very lightweight, lots of room on each page for annotations which i love :)

You’re buying this because you love poetry or because you’re an Emily Dickinson fan or you know someone who is. It’s a lovely little book and doesn’t cost much. A great present for your poetic pal.

Excellent addition to my required reading for a study of Dickinson's poetry in the Spring Term at Manchester Uni

Kurzer aber guter Einblick: Die Gedichte der amerikanische Lyrikerin Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) wurden erst nach ihrem Tod veröffentlicht. Zeit ihres Lebens zurückgezogen lebend, beschäftigte sie sich in ihrem Werk häufig mit großen Themen wie Tod, Natur, Liebe und Verzicht.Das vorliegende Büchlein umfasst 48 ihrer insgesamt fast 1800 Gedichte; naturgemäß erhält man so nur einen kleinen Einblick in das überwiegend zeitlose Schaffen - ausreichend um herauszufinden, ob man sich von den Worten der Emily Dickinson angesprochen fühlt."Because I could not stop for Death,He kindly stopped for me;The carriage held but just ourselves –And Immortality." -- Emily Dickinson