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Emily Dickinson's Letters to the World
By Winter, Jeanette & Dickinson, Emily
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-37432-147-5
- Publisher
- New York : Frances Foster Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2002.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2002
Gr 2-5 The reclusive American poet is revealed through 21 of her poems in this small-format picture book. Told from the point of view of her sister Lavinia, who discovered almost 1800 of Dickinson's precious poems after her death, the story provides only snippets of the poet's enigmatic life: her refusal to leave the family's Amherst home, her fanatical love of words, and her dying as a virtual unknown. However, the selection of poems-Emily's "letters"-gives insight into her thoughts on a variety of topics, rang...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
