This comprehensive and authoritative collection of all 1,775 poems by Emily Dickinson is an essential volume for all lovers of American literature. Only eleven of Emily Dickinson's poems were published during her lifetime before her death in 1886; the astonishing originality of her work led to it being forgotten while she was alive. Early posthumous collections – some of which included generously edited versions of the poems – did not fully and accurately represent Dickinson's bold experiments with meter, her tragic vision, and the range of her intellectual and emotional explorations. It was only with the publication of "The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson" in 1955, a three-volume critical edition compiled by Thomas H. Johnson, that readers could finally evaluate, understand, and appreciate the entirety of Dickinson's extraordinary poetic genius. This book, a condensation of the three-volume complete edition, brings together the original texts of all 1,775 poems written by Emily Dickinson. With its chronological arrangement of the poems, this volume is more than just a collection; it is also a poetic biography of the thoughts and feelings of a woman whose beauty was deep and enduring.