Gibbs Smith Hope is the Thing with Feathers: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Excellent historical collections by theme. Lovely book to hold, browse and find favourites. The lack of Emily's use of dashes makes it read differently than what I'm used to. I've always found these dashes to be breaths of varying types. This may be how the collections here were published probably so my dropping a star is not a criticism of the book, just a little quirk of mine.

Liking this will rather depend on whether or not you like Emily Dickinson. Fortunately I do!it is a nice, compact size being about the size of a paperback but the print and layout is nice and spacious so you can carry it around easily and read it anywhere rather than some of the bigger volumes that are fine for sitting at home reading but a bit of a pain to carry around.Basically, if you like Emily Dickinson then this is a nicely presented, compact, and reasonably priced volume.

This is quite a nice hardback book, but the editions of the poems appear to be early published versions that were heavily edited away from the originals.

I ordered this as I am a fan of Emily Dickinson, the book was delivered in good time and fits perfectly in my hands, if a little too snugly, ascetically the book comes in a matt cover finish so the colours are not as vivid as advertised, other than that it was a good collection of poems.

Good compilation