FAVORITE POEMS (En papel)

Datos del libro

• Nº de páginas: 92 págs.
• Editorial: DOVER
• Lengua: INGLÉS
• Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
• ISBN: 9780486417813
• Año edicón: 2004
• Plaza de edición: NEW YORK

Sinopsis

Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the man of letters to whom Emily Dickinson first entrusted her poems, was dumbfounded by them, and asked, "What place ought to be assigned in literature to what is so remarkable, yet so elusive of criticism?" His question was answered only after Dickinson's death in 1886: she is now considered one of America's greatest poets. Her terse, oblique, visionary poems--only 10 of which were published in her lifetime--have almost no relation to the conventions of the second half of the 19th century, when they were written. The poems play adventurously with meter and rhyme ...