After the surprising success of the first volume, Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson assembled this second selection of Dickinson’s short poems in 1891. They are grouped under Life, Love, Nature, and Time and Eternity, and include her portraits of butterflies, summer afternoons and the slant approach of death.
The early editions show how Dickinson first reached the public, and the poems themselves remain startling. Download the free EPUB.