On this day in reading and poem history - The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Aurora is the effort (1960)

Aurora is the effort

A poem by Emily Dickinson
 
Aurora is the effort
Of the Celestial Face
Unconsciousness of Perfectness
To simulate, to Us.
 

Pictures in video were taken during two events of the aurora borealis, visible from my home in 2024.
 
Video by Jack Kost.
2024.

 
Recommended reading:

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

by Emily Dickinson.

Edited by Thomas H. Johnson.

Published by Little, Brown and Company.

Published 1960.

Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 0316184144

ISBN-13: 978-0316184144

Description:

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 prior to her death in 1886; the startling originality of her work doomed it to obscurity in her lifetime. Early posthumous published collections – some of them featuring liberally "edited" versions of the poems – did not fully and accurately represent Dickinson's bold experiments in prosody, her tragic vision, and the range of her intellectual and emotional explorations. Not until the 1955 publication of The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, a three-volume critical edition compiled by Thomas H. Johnson, were readers able for the first time to assess, understand, and appreciate the whole of Dickinson's extraordinary poetic genius.

This book, a distillation of the three-volume Complete Poems, brings together the original texts of all 1,775 poems that Emily Dickinson wrote.

"With its chronological arrangement of the poems, this volume becomes more than just a collection; it is at the same time a poetic biography of the thoughts and feelings of a woman whose beauty was deep and lasting." – San Francisco Chronicle.