Traces historical publishing variants of an entire fascicle and presents a scanned version of the pages. Translating Emily: Digitally Re-Presenting Fascicle 16. A classic critical work on Dickinson’s poems that explores what Anderson believes to be the 'major' poems from various angles such as 'wit,' 'circumference,' and 'process.' Holt, Rinehart and Winston: New York, 1960. A collection of essays, mostly focused on Dickinson’s poetics.Īnderson, Charles R. New Century Views: Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 1996. Emily Dickinson: A Collection of Critical Articles. A collection of essays by notable Dickinson scholars that address historical, thematic, and poetic issues over the scope of her poetry.įarr, Judith, ed. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2002. The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson.

A good critical biography and exploration of the intersection between her life and works. Widely considered to be the best biography for accuracy and richness of biographical detail. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1972. Edited by Thomas Johnson, who compiled the definitive collected poems, these letters show an astounding variety of wit, poetics, and personality, giving us perhaps the truest biography-though, following her own rule, she chose in the many letters of her lifetime to “Tell all the truth, but tell it slant,” revealing more moods and modes of thought than concrete biographical detail. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1971. A personal, poetic, and accessible entrance into the world of Emily Dickinson that mixes biography and criticism. North Atlantic Books: Berkeley, California: 1986. Sewall’s lauded 1972 biography, and is worth reading for this perspective as well as a devotion to overlooked Dickinson poems. This recent biography includes the significant feminist scholarship accrued since Richard B. My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson. Many do not fall into such neat hymn patterns as earlier publications suggested. The most recent incarnation of Dickinson’s poems, presented as she wrote them, with all their variants of punctuation, capitalization, and arrangements on the page. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press/Harvard University, 1981. The definitive collected poems, with restoration to the original punctuation and capitalization, arranged, as much as possible, in chronological order.įranklin, R.W., ed.

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