Sextio dikter av Emily Dickinson på både svenska och engelska. För alla Dickinson-älskare, nuvarande och blivande. Med biografi och utförliga förklaringar av Dickinsons engelska, vilket gör boken extra värdefull för alla språkintresserade. Poeten Emily Dickinson levde i nordöstra USA mellan 1830 och 1886. Under hennes livstid publicerades endast några få av hennes nästan 1800 dikter. I våra dagar hyllas hon som en av de största amerikanska diktarna. Min flod flyter mot dig innehåller sextio dikter på engelska och svenska, som förmedlar allt från djupt allvar och passion till humor och ironi. De flesta återges här för första gången på svenska. Boken fördjupar läsarens engelskkunskaper och känsla för poesins uttryckssätt. Dikterna har fotnoter som gör det lättare att förstå Emily Dickinsons språk. Efter dikterna finns fylliga kapitel om dikternas form och språk och om arbetet med att översätta dem. Där finns också en biografi över Emily Dickinson. – Inbunden med vackert skyddsomslag, 174 sidor.
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Emily Dickinson was an American poet who, despite the fact that less than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime, is widely considered one of the most original and influential poets of the 19th century. Dickinson was born to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Thought of as an eccentric by the locals, she became known for her penchant for white clothing and her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, even leave her room. Most of her friendships were therefore carried out by correspondence. Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime.The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation.Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends. Although most of her acquaintances were probably aware of Dickinson's writing, it was not until after her death in 1886—when Lavinia, Emily's younger sister, discovered her cache of poems—that the breadth of Dickinson's work became apparent. Her first collection of poetry was published in 1890 by personal acquaintances Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd, both of whom heavily edited the content. A complete and mostly unaltered collection of her poetry became available for the first time in 1955 when The Poems of Emily Dickinson was published by scholar Thomas H. Johnson. Despite unfavorable reviews and skepticism of her literary prowess during the late 19th and early 20th century, critics now consider Dickinson to be a major American poet. For more information, please see http://www.answers.com/topic/emily-di...
