A review by mlsweeten
Selected Poems and Letters of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson

challenging inspiring reflective relaxing slow-paced

3.5

I was more interested in the poetry than the letters. Her poems have a consistent rhythm so I find reading them to be relaxing and soothing. While they appear simple, some of them really aren’t. She writes a lot about nature and death. Some seemed very abstract but my favorites are a bit more personal. 

“I shall know why, when time is over
And I have ceased to wonder why;
Christ will explain each separate anguish
In the fair schoolroom of the sky.”