Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems Audiobook, by Emily Dickinson Play Audiobook Sample

Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems Audiobook

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Read By: Mary Woods Publisher: Blackstone Publishing Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 3.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 2.63 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: March 2012 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781481556057

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

13

Longest Chapter Length:

65:51 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

10:35 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

24:49 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

9

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Publisher Description

Emily Dickinson today has gaining her deserved place alongside Walt Whitman as one of the two greatest American poets of the nineteenth century. Beginning always with particulars of personal experience, her poems encompass life and death, love and longing, joyfulness and sorrow. With sparse, precise language, she conveyed a penetrating vision of the natural world and an acute understanding of the most profound human truths.

The poems included in this collection are grouped by three time periods, 1890, 1891, and 1896, and by the subjects of life, love, nature, and time and eternity.

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— Ellen (4 out of 5 stars)

Quotes

  • “No one can read these poems…without perceiving that he is not so much reading as being spoken to.”

    — Archibald MacLeish, three-time Pultizer Prize–winning poet
  • “If there were ever a poet whose work begged to be heard, it would be Dickinson.”

    — Library Journal
  • “Her poems are remarkable for their condensation, their vividness of image, their delicate or pungent satire and irony, their childlike responsiveness to experience, their subtle feeling for nature…their excellence in imaginative insight and still greater excellence in fancy.”

    — Norman Foerster, A History of American Literature
  • “‘I find ecstacy in living,’ she said to Higginson, and spoke truly, as her poems show. In an unexpected light on orchards, in a wistful mood of meadow or wood-border held secure for a moment before it vanished…in the echoes, obscure in origin, that stirred within her own mind and soul, now a tenuous melody, now a deep harmony, a haunting question, or a memorable affirmation—everywhere she displayed something of the mystic’s insight and joy.”

    — Cambridge History of American Literature

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    " Emily Dickinson truly softens and expands the heart with her poetry. I love her poems! "

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    " I love Emily's poems about life and nature. "

    — Brooke, 1/20/2014
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    " This was such a pleasant read. Beautiful poetry. I found myself nodding and smiling and occasionally frowning while reading them, and that is a very good sign. I love her honesty and her bold play with words. Just wonderful. "

    — Jeske, 1/18/2014
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    " when i keep this book in my back pocket, it looks like i own a wallet. brenda hillman did a fine job of selecting ms. dickinson's poems. this is the most beat-up and worn-out book i own, but i'm still holding out hope it lasts forever. "

    — Steven, 1/17/2014
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    " I really enjoyed a lot of these, especially many of those on love. The ones on death are poignant as well but (fortunately) don't relate closely to my life at the moment. "

    — Laura, 12/26/2013
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    " My roommate also gave me this for my birthday. It's a really nice little volume of about 109 poems. Some of her best known poems are included in here, but also others that are just as good, if less studied. It's a cool little book. "

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    " I remember some of the poems from high school and college, but others were new to me. Nice collection. "

    — Lesley, 6/3/2013
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    " Brief and beautiful nuggets of wisdom, with a few true greats. It's a tiny volume - read it in an hour or savor it for a few days. "

    — Aaron, 5/20/2013
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About Emily Dickinson

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) was born of English parents in Bombay, India. At seventeen, he began work as a journalist and over the next seven years established an international reputation with his stories and verses of Indian and army life, including such classics as The Jungle Book and Kim. In 1907 he became the first English writer to receive the Nobel Prize.

About Mary Woods

Mary Woods began her career in Washington, DC, where she performed at Ford’s Theater, the Folger Theater, Round House, and Washington Stage Guild. She spent several seasons at New Playwrights’ Theater developing new American plays. She is a veteran narrator of Talking Books for the Library of Congress, and received the Alexander Scourby Narrator of the Year Award for fiction in 1996. Formerly a radio news director, she now hosts a daily local affairs interview program on Catholic Radio, for the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. She lives in Albuquerque, where she continues to act on stage and in film. She received her BA at the Catholic University of America in Fine Arts and Drama.