Emily Dickinson audiobooks

Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Though Emily Elizabeth Dickinson is considered as one of the most important poets of America, her contemporary literary world failed to recognize her poems. Emily Dickinson's irregular and free poetical style did not earn much recogniztion during her life time and hardly just a dozen of her works got published out of more than 1800 poems written by..

Emily Dickinson on Death

by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson on Death: In a letter to Abiah Root, Dickinson once asked, "Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death which all so dread because it launches us upon an unknown..

Emily Dickinson on Hope

by Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson wrote this poem in 1862, a prolific year for her poetry, one of nearly 1800 poems she penned during her lifetime. Only seven of these were published while she was still alive. Her sister Lavinia collected and helped publish all of her poems after Emily's death in 1886."Hope" Is The Thing With Feathers is one of the best known of Emi..

Because I Could Not Stop For Death

by Emily Dickinson

"Because I could not stop for Death" is a lyrical poem by Emily Dickinson first published posthumously in Poems: Series 1 in 1890. The persona of Dickinson's poem meets personified Death. Death is a gentleman caller who takes a leisurely carriage ride with the speaker to her grave. According to Thomas H. Johnson's variorum edition of 1955 the numbe..