Poems of Emily Dickinson: Series 2

By: Emily Dickinson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Mabel Loomis Todd

Narrated by: Larry Wilson, Lyndal Curran Doolan, Martha H. Weller, Amy Soakes, Kylie Elliott, Margaret Wakeley, Lee Ann Howlett, Linda Barrans, Ron Altman, Nancy Beard, Gary MacFadden, Terah Tucker, Denis Daly, Gregory Dwyer, full cast

Few of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published in her lifetime. Her posthumous fame is largely due to the efforts of her editors and supporters Thomas W. Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd.

In the foreword to this second collection, published in 1891, Mabel Loomis Todd wrote: “The eagerness with which the first volume of Emily Dickinson’s poems has been read shows very clearly that all our alleged modern artificiality does not prevent a prompt appreciation of the qualities of directness and simplicity in approaching the greatest themes—life and love and death. That “irresistible needle-touch,” as one of her best critics has called it, piercing at once the very core of a thought, has found a response as wide and sympathetic as it has been unexpected even to those who knew best her compelling power. This second volume, while open to the same criticism as to form with its predecessor, shows also the same shining beauties.”

Narrators:

• Larry Wilson
• Lyndal Curran Doolan
• Martha H. Weller
• Amy Soakes
• Kylie Elliott
• Margaret Wakeley
• Lee Ann Howlett
• Linda Barrans
• Ron Altman
• Nancy Beard
• Gary MacFadden
• Terah Tucker
• Denis Daly
• Gregory Dwyer
• Charlie Albers
• JaeAudio

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