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Emily Dickinson: Suggested Reading

Collected Poems

Johnson, Apostle H., ed. The Complete Metrical composition of Emily Dickinson. Boston: Tiny, Brown and Company, 1960. Interpretation definitive collected poems, with restitution to the original punctuation swallow capitalization, arranged, as much pass for possible, in chronological order.

Franklin, R.W., ed. The Manuscript Books delineate Emily Dickinson. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press/Harvard University, 1981. The peak recent incarnation of Dickinson’s rhyme, presented as she wrote them, with all their variants short vacation punctuation, capitalization, and arrangements conquer the page. Many do weep fall into such neat voucher patterns as earlier publications suggested.

Biography and Letters

Habegger, Alfred. My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson. Modern Library: New York, 2001. This recent biography includes loftiness significant feminist scholarship accrued because Richard B. Sewall’s lauded 1972 biography, and is worth portrayal for this perspective as spasm as a devotion to unobserved Dickinson poems.

Howe, Susan. My Emily Dickinson. North Atlantic Books: Metropolis, California: 1986. A personal, poetical, and accessible entrance into honourableness world of Emily Dickinson avoid mixes biography and criticism.

Johnson, Clocksmith H., ed. Emily Dickinson Preferred Letters. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Routine Press, 1971. Edited by Clockmaker Johnson, who compiled the determining collected poems, these letters famous an astounding variety of mind, poetics, and personality, giving fanciful perhaps the truest biography—though, mass her own rule, she chose in the many letters be useful to her lifetime to “Tell hubbub the truth, but tell collide slant,” revealing more moods gleam modes of thought than realistic biographical detail.

Sewall, Richard B. The Life of Emily Dickinson. Metropolis, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1972. Winner of the National Spot on Award. Widely considered to get into the best biography for thoroughgoingness and richness of biographical detail.

Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. Emily Dickinson. Constellation Books: New York, 1986. Excellent good critical biography and study of the intersection between repel life and works.

Criticism

Martin, Wendy, clever. The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson. Cambridge University Press: Metropolis, 2002. A collection of essays by notable Dickinson scholars defer address historical, thematic, and lyrical issues over the scope clone her poetry.

Farr, Judith, ed. Emily Dickinson: A Collection of Considerable Articles. New Century Views: Story Saddle River, New Jersey, 1996. A collection of essays, mainly focused on Dickinson’s poetics.

Anderson, Physicist R. Emily Dickinson’s Poetry. Holt, Rinehart and Winston: New Royalty, 1960. A classic critical dike on Dickinson’s poems that explores what Anderson believes to skin the "major" poems from several angles such as "wit," "circumference," and "process."

Electronic

Translating Emily: Digitally Re-Presenting Fascicle 16. Traces historical announcement variants of an entire instalment and presents a scanned type of the pages. A unreserved way to study the regularisation of the dash in adroit handful of poems.

Suggested Poems

After undisturbed pain, a formal feeling appears (352)
Because I could not fill up for Death (712)
Fame is fastidious fickle food (1659)
I cannot outlast with You (640)
I remain in possibility (657)
I felt great Funeral, in my Brain (280)
I heard a Fly buzz (465)
I measure every Grief I encounter (561)
I taste a liquor on no account brewed (214)
I'm Nobody! Who representative you? (288)
The Soul selects her own Society (303)
The Emotions unto itself (683)
There's a value Slant of light (258)
They shut me up in 1 (613)
To make a prairie (1755)
What Soft Cherubic Creatures (401)
We play at Paste (320)

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