Autumn: A Season In Verse: Also known as fall, enjoy the transition of summer to winter in beautiful poems.

Written by Emily Dickinson, Percy Bysshe Shelley, W. B. Yeats and 2 more

Narrated by Ghizela Rowe and Gideon Wagner

For many of us, autumn is the season of mixed emotions. Summer’s long days are replaced by a chill in the air. The colors on the trees and fields ripen to warmer hues and the harvest is brought safely home. Yet with this bounty there is the knowledge that nature is turning her attention to the harder, colder winter months ahead. Our collection of poems amplifies this balance between the loss of summer and the gain of the harvest with wonderful poems by such notables as Percy Bysshe Shelley, W. B. Yeats, John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Henry Longfellow, and others. Please enjoy this volume of the Seasons in Verse series.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jan 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781780002781

Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, Dickinson was raised in a prominent family of lawyers and politicians alongside two siblings. For seven years, she studied at Amherst Academy, excelling in English, classics, and the sciences. Dickinson suffered from melancholy and poor health from a young age, taking several breaks from school to stay with family in Boston. After graduation, Dickinson enrolled at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, withdrawing ten months later to return home to Amherst. Through her friend Benjamin Franklin Newton, she was introduced to the poetry of William Wordsworth and Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose influence would prove profound as she embarked on a literary life of her own. Despite her status as one of the greatest American poets of the nineteenth century, Dickinson published only ten poems and one letter during her lifetime, only a sampling of nearly two thousand poems discovered after her death. Cast as an eccentric by contemporaries and later critics alike, Dickinson was an enigmatic figure whose experimental forms and extensive use of symbols have inspired generations of readers and poets. By the 1870s, following the death of her father, Dickinson had largely withdrawn from public life. Spending much of her time caring for her ailing mother, she still managed to write poems and send letters to friends and family. In 1886, following her death, Dickinson’s younger sister Lavinia discovered her collection of poems and began the long and arduous process of bringing them to print.