The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II

This is the second volume of the first posthumous editions of Dickinson's poems, edited by her friends Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. It gathers short lyrics on nature, love, death, time and the inner life. Many are brief and riddle-like, and they show her unusual punctuation and sharp, compressed style, though early editors smoothed some of it. The collection followed the success of the first series and helped establish her reputation with readers.