80 Poemas de Emily Dickinson

by Emily Dickinson

O encontro de dois grandes poetas é sempre um fenómeno notável. Quando em 1979 Jorge de Sena, indiscutivelmente um dos maiores poetas portugueses do seu século, traduziu a obra "80 Poemas de Emily Dickinson", uma das maiores poetisas americanas de sempre, aconteceu um desses momentos raros. Há muito esgotado no nosso mercado esta edição, inserida nas Obras Completas de Jorge de Sena, preenche uma das grandes lacunas no nosso panorama literário.

Genres: Poetry

193 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1978

About the author

Emily Dickinson was an American poet who, despite the fact that less than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime, is widely considered one of the most original and influential poets of the 19th century.

Dickinson was born to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Thought of as an eccentric by the locals, she became known for her penchant for white clothing and her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, even leave her room. Most of her friendships were therefore carried out by correspondence.

Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime.The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines, typically lack titles, and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation.Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends.

Although most of her acquaintances were probably aware of Dickinson's writing, it was not until after her death in 1886—when Lavinia, Emily's younger sister, discovered her cache of poems—that the breadth of Dickinson's work became apparent. Her first collection of poetry was published in 1890 by personal acquaintances Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd, both of whom heavily edited the content.

A complete and mostly unaltered collection of her poetry became available for the first time in 1955 when The Poems of Emily Dickinson was published by scholar Thomas H. Johnson. Despite unfavorable reviews and skepticism of her literary prowess during the late 19th and early 20th century, critics now consider Dickinson to be a major American poet.

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Reviews

[Luís · Rating 5 out of 5]

Death is the supple Suitor
That wins at last -
It is a stealthy Wooing
Conducted first
By pallid innuendoes
And dim approch
But brave at last with Bugles
And a bisected Coach
it bears away in triumph
To Troth unknown
And Kindred as responsive
As Porcelain.

Translation by Jorge de Sena.

[Reading with a Witchling · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[Cobramor · Rating 3 out of 5]

Adoro Jorge de Sena, mas não o quero ler quando pego em Emily Dickinson.
Uma tradução com mais tradutor do que autor.

[Ricardo Alves · Rating 5 out of 5]

Versão de Jorge de Sena, creditada às suas «Obras», com uma magistral «Introdução», apanágio dos trabalhos críticos e ensaísticos do grande escritor.
A poesia de Emily Dickinson (1830-1866) é breve, por vezes quase aforística, e essencial, lembrando, em certas ocasiões -- e embora mais negra -- a de Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen.
A biografia de Emily Dickinson pouco mais regista além da vivência sem história ("Great Streets of silence led away / To Neighbourhoods of Pause", c.1870) numa pequena cidade da Nova Inglaterra, ao contrário duma tumultuosa inquietação interior, que surge a cada passo ("This is my letter to the World / That never wrote to Me", c.1862) : as interpelações descrentes a Deus ("Heavenly Father [...] / We apologize to thee / For thine own Duplicity --" c.1879); a incómoda rasura da diferença ("Assent -- and you are sane -- / Demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- / And handled with a chain -- ", c.1862); a ausência do amor ("Wild Nights -- Wild Nights! / Were I with thee / Wild Nights should be / Our luxury!", c.1861)."Your thoughts don't have words everyday", escreveu num apontamento, por volta de 1861, reflectindo esse acontecer do(s) poema(s) por entre a verdejante calma aparente numa casa de família em Amherst, Massachusetts, em que viveu praticamente na obscuridade e ignorada dos seus contemporâneos.
Há mais mundo na cabeça dum grande poeta do que em qualquer grand tour que um medíocre de ontem e de hoje possa fazer.