Helen Vendler's Dickinson Selected Poems and Commentaries is a great chance to enter the chamber of Emily Dickinson's poetry.
With Vendler's expertise, the reader gets to note the strands of phrases of other poets like Shakespeare, Keats, George Herbert in Dickinson's work. With the author's extensive knowledge of Dickinson's poetry we get to know the continuation of themes in other poems or deleted texts (in the name of revision or brevity)
Commentary in layman's language shakes the mystery of a poet of a different century.
Now Dickinson's poems will not fade out of my radar without a good look at them.
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