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Born in 1830 / Died in 1886 / United States / English

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Bibliographies:

  • Willis Buckingham, Emily Dickinson: An Annotated Bibliography: Writings, Scholarship, Criticism and Analysis, 1850-1968 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1970).
  • Annual bibliographies in Dickinson Studies (1978-1993).
  • Joseph Duchac, The Poems of Emily Dickinson: An Annotated Guide to Commentary Published in English, 1890-1977 (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1979).
  • Joel Myerson, Emily Dickinson: A Descriptive Bibliography (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984).
  • Karen Dandurand, Dickinson Scholarship: An Annotated Bibliography, 1969-1985 (New York: Garland, 1988).
  • Duchac, The Poems of Emily Dickinson: An Annotated Guide to Commentary Published in English, 1978-1989 (New York: G. K. Hall, 1993).
  • Myerson, "Supplement to Emily Dickinson: A Descriptive Bibliography," Emily Dickinson Journal, 4, no. 2 (1995): 87-128.

Biographies:

  • George Whicher, This Was a Poet: A Critical Biography of Emily Dickinson (New York: Scribners, 1938).
  • Thomas H. Johnson, Emily Dickinson: An Interpretive Biography (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1955).
  • Jay Leyda, The Years and Hours of Emily Dickinson, 2 volumes (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1960).
  • John Cody, After Great Pain: The Inner Life of Emily Dickinson (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971).
  • Richard B. Sewall, The Life of Emily Dickinson, 2 volumes (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1974).
  • Barbara Mossberg, Emily Dickinson: When a Writer Is a Daughter (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982).
  • Jerome Loving, Emily Dickinson: The Poet on the Second Story (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986).
  • Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Emily Dickinson (New York: Knopf, 1986).
  • Alfred Habegger, My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson (New York: Random House, 2001).

References:

  • Charles Anderson, Emily Dickinson's Poetry: Stairway of Surprise (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1960).
  • Annual review essays in American Literary Scholarship
    (1963-).
  • Christopher Benfey, Emily Dickinson and the Problem of Others (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1984).
  • Paula Bennett, Emily Dickinson: Woman Poet (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1990).
  • Millicent Todd Bingham, Ancestors' Brocades: The Literary Debut of Emily Dickinson (New York: Harper, 1945).
  • Willis Buckingham, Emily Dickinson's Reception in the 1890s: A Documentary History (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989).
  • Buckingham, "Poetry Readers and Reading in the 1890s: Emily Dickinson's First Reception," in Readers in History: Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Contexts of Response, edited by James L. Machor (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993), pp. 164-179.
  • Edwin H. Cady and Louis J. Budd, eds., On Dickinson: The Best From American Literature (Durham: Duke University Press, 1990).
  • Sharon Cameron, Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979).
  • Jack L. Capps, Emily Dickinson's Reading, 1836-1886 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1966).
  • Joanne Feit Diehl, Dickinson and the Romantic Imagination (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981).
  • Joanne Dobson, Dickinson and Strategies of Reticence: The Woman Writer in Nineteenth-Century America (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989).
  • Jane Donahue Eberwein, Dickinson, Strategies of Limitation (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1985).
  • Eberwein, ed., An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998).
  • The Emily Dickinson Journal (1992-).
  • Judith Farr, The Passion of Emily Dickinson (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992).
  • Paul Ferlazzo, ed., Critical Essays on Emily Dickinson (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1984).
  • R. W. Franklin, The Editing of Emily Dickinson: A Reconsideration (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967).
  • Albert J. Gelpi, Emily Dickinson: The Mind of the Poet (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1965).
  • Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979).
  • Grabher Gudrun, Roland Hagenbüchle, and Cristanne Miller, eds., The Emily Dickinson Handbook (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998).
  • Jeanne Holland, "Scraps, Stamps, and Cutouts: Emily Dickinson's Domestic Technologies of Publication," in Cultural Artifacts and the Production of Meaning: The Page, the Image and the Body, edited by J. M. Ezell and Katherine O'Keeffe (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994), pp. 139-181.
  • Margaret Homans, Women Writers and Poetic Identity: Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Brontë, and Emily Dickinson (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980).
  • Susan Howe, "These Flames and Generosities of the Heart: Emily Dickinson and the Illogic of Sumptuary Values," in her The Birth-Mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary History (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1993), pp. 131-153.
  • Suzanne Juhasz, The Undiscovered Continent: Emily Dickinson and the Space of the Mind (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983).
  • Juhasz, ed., Feminist Critics Read Emily Dickinson (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983).
  • Juhasz, Cristanne Miller, Martha Nell Smith, eds., Comic Power in Emily Dickinson (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993).
  • Karl Keller, The Only Kangaroo Among the Beauty: Emily Dickinson and America (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979).
  • Benjamin Lease, Emily Dickinson's Readings of Men and Books: Sacred Soundings (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990).
  • Mary Loeffelholz, Dickinson and the Boundaries of Feminist Theory (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991).
  • Wendy Martin, An American Triptych: Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984).
  • Cynthia MacKenzie, Concordance to the Letters of Emily Dickinson (Boulder: University of Colorado Press, 2000).
  • Jerome McGann, Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernism (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993).
  • Cristanne Miller, Emily Dickinson: A Poet's Grammar (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1987).
  • Domhnall Mitchell, Emily Dickinson: Monarch of Perception (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000).
  • Dorothy Oberhaus, Emily Dickinson's Fascicles: Method and Meaning (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994).
  • Martin Orzeck and Robert Weisbuch, eds., Dickinson and Audience (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996).
  • Vivian Pollak, Dickinson: The Anxiety of Gender (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1984).
  • David Porter, Emily Dickinson, the Modern Idiom (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1981).
  • Adrienne Rich, "Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson," in her On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978 (New York: Norton, 1979), pp. 157-183.
  • S. P. Rosenbaum, A Concordance to the Poems of Emily Dickinson (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1966).
  • Martha Nell Smith, Rowing in Eden: Re-Reading Emily Dickinson (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992).
  • Barton Levi St. Armand, Emily Dickinson and Her Culture: The Soul's Society (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1984).
  • Robert Weisbuch, Emily Dickinson's Poetry (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1975).
  • Marta L. Werner, ed., Emily Dickinson's Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995).
  • Shira Wolosky, Emily Dickinson: A Voice at War (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984).