The Essential Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

The Essential Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson with Joyce Carol Oates

112 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction classics poetry challenging reflective slow-paced
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SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY JOYCE CAROL OATESBetween them, our great visionary poets of the American nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, have come to represent the extreme, idiosyncratic poles of the American psyche....Dickinson n...

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Moods

reflective 87%
emotional 58%
inspiring 45%
challenging 35%
dark 29%
sad 22%
hopeful 16%
mysterious 12%
relaxing 9%
adventurous 3%
funny 3%
informative 3%
lighthearted 3%
tense 3%

Pace

slow 53%
fast 28%
medium 18%

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4.11

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