Actress Julie Harris reads some of Emily Dickenson's poetry and letters, including:
This is my letter to the world
• The soul selects her own society
• Pain has an element of blank
• Hope is the thing with feathers
• I'm nobody! Who are you?
• I'll tell you how the sun rose
• I cautious scanned my little life
• If you were coming in the fall
• My river runs to thee
• I reason, earth is short
• I never lost as much but twice
• I died for beauty, but was scarce
• There came a wind, like a bugle
• Safe in their alabaster chambers
• I years had been from home
• Love is anterior to life
• I cannot live with you
• My life closed twice before its close
• I never saw a moor
• To fight aloud is very brave
• Because I could not stop for Death
• A toad can die of light!
• I heard a fly buzz when I died
• I like to see it lap up miles
• Before I got my eye put out
• To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee
• A narrow fellow in the grass
• A bird came down the walk
• What soft, cherubic creatures
• I taste a liquor never brewed
• Besides the autumn poets sing
• The heart asks pleasure first
• The sky is low, the clouds are mean
• There's a certain slant of light
• I felt a funeral in my brain
• After great pain a formal feeling comes
• I dwell in possiblity
• Letters: Letter to T.W. Higginson, April 15, 1862; Letter to T.W. Higginson, April 25, 1862; Letter to John L. Graves, April 1856; Letter to Otis P. Lord, December 3, 1882; Letter to Dr. and Mrs. J.G. Holland, summer 1862; Letter to Maria Whitney, summer 1883; Letter to Louise and Frances Norcross, July 1879; Letter to Sally Jenkins, December 1880; Letter to Susan Gilbert Dickinson, October 1883; Letter to Mrs. J.G. Holland, June 1884
Dickinson's poems are interspersed with her luminous letters.
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