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Emily Dickinson Selected Bibliography

Books by Emily Dickinson

The Complete Poems. Ed. Thomas H. Johnson. Boston: Little, 1960.


The Poems of Emily Dickinson. Ed. Thomas H. Johnson. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard, 1955. 3 volumes.


The Manuscript Books. Ed. Ralph W. Franklin. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard, 1981. 2 volumes.

The Letters. Ed. Thomas H. Johnson and Theodora Ward. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard, 1958. 3 volumes.

The Lyman Letters: New Light on Emily Dickinson and Her Family. Ed. Richard B. Sewall. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1965.

The Master Letters of Emily Dickinson. Ed. Ralph W. Franklin. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1998.

Books and articles about Emily Dickinson

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Anderson, Charles R. Emily Dickinson’s Poetry: Stairway of Surprise. Westport: Greenwood, 1960.

Arensberg, Mary, ed. The American Sublime. Albany: State U of NY Press, 1986.

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Bain, Robert, ed. Whitman's and Dickinson's Contemporaries: An Anthology of Their Verse. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1996.

Barker, Wendy. Lunacy of Light: Emily Dickinson and the Experience of Metaphor. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1987.

Baym, Nina. “God, Father and Lover in Emily Dickinson’s Poetry.” Ed. Emory Elliott. Puritan Influences on American Literature. Urbana: Illinois, 1979. 193-209.

Benfry, Christopher E. G., ed. Emily Dickinson: The Lives of a Poet. New York: Braziller, 1986.

---. Emily Dickinson and the Problem of Others. Amherst: U Massachusetts P, 1984.

Bennett, Fordyce R. A Reference Guide to the Bible in Emily Dickinson's Poetry. Lanham: Scarecrow, 1996.

Bennett, Paula. "'By a Mouth That Cannot Speak': Spectral Presence in Emily Dickinson's Letters." Emily Dickinson Journal 1.2 (1992): 76-99 .

---. Emily Dickinson: Woman Poet. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1990.

---. My Life, A Loaded Gun: Female Creativity and the Feminist Poetics. Boston: Beacon, 1986.

Blake, Caesar R., and Carlton F. Wells, eds. The Recognition of Emily Dickinson, selected criticism since 1890. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1964.

Bloom, Harold, ed. Emily Dickinson. Modern Critical Views. New York: Chelsea,
1985.

Brock-Broido, Lucie. The Master Letters. New York: Knopf, 1997.

Buckingham, Willis J., ed. Emily Dickinson: An Annotated Bibliography. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1970. [R 016.81 D553b]

---. Emily Dickinson’s Reception in the 1980s: A Documentary History. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1989. [R 016.811 D548b]

---. "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, ed. James L. Machor. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1993. 164-179.

Budick, E. Miller. Emily Dickinson and the Life of Language: A Study in Symbolic Poetics. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1985.

---. “Temporal Consciousness and the perception of Eternity in Emily Dickinson,” Essays in Literature (USA) 10, Part 2 (Fall 1983): 227-39.

---. “The Dangers of the Living Word: Aspects of Dickinson’s Epistemology, Cosmology, and Symbolism,” ESQ 29 (Fourth Quarter, 1983): 208-24.

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Cady, Edwin H. and Louis J. Budd, ed. On Dickinson: The Best from American Literature. Durham: Duke UP, 1990.

Cameron, Sharon. Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1979.

---. Choosing not Choosing: Dickinson’s Fascicles. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1992.

Capps, Jack L. Emily Dickinson’s Reading. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1966.

Clendening, Sheila T. Emily Dickinson: A Bibliography, 1850-1966. Kent State: Kent State UP, 1968. [R 016.81 D553]

Cody, John. After the Great Pain. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1971.

Crumbley, Paul. "Dickinson's Dashes and the Limits of Discourse." The Emily Dickinson Journal 1.2 (1992): 8-29.

---. Inflections of the Pen: Dash and Voice in Emily Dickinson. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1997.

Cuddy, Lois. “The Influence of Latin Poetics on Emily Dickinson’s Style.” Comparative Literature Studies XIII (1976): 214-29.

---. “The Latin Imprint on Emily Dickinson’s Poetry: Theory and Practice.” American Literature 50 (1978-9): 74-84.

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Dandurand, Karen. "New Dickinson Civil War Publication." American Literature 56 (1984): 17-27.

Danley, Susan, ed. Language as Object: Emily Dickinson and Contemporary Art. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1997.

Dickenson, Donna. Emily Dickinson. Leamington Spa: Berg, 1985.

Dickie, Margaret. "Dickinson in Context." American Literary History 7 (1995):320-333.

---. Lyric Contingencies: Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1991.

Diehl, Joanne Feit. Dickinson and the Romantic Imagination. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1981.

---. “‘Ransom in a Voice: Language as Defense in Dickinson’s Poetry . ’” Feminist Critics Read Emily Dickinson. Ed. Juhasz, 156-75.

Dobson, Joanne. Dickinson and the Strategies of Reticence: The Woman Writer in Nineteenth Century America. Bloomington, Indiana UP, 1989.

Duhac, Joseph. The Poems of Emily Dickinson: An Annotated Guide to Commentary Published in English, 1890-1977. Boston: Hall, 1979. [R 828 D55pxd]

---. The Poems of Emily Dickinson: An Annotated Guide to Commentary Published in English, 1978-1989. Boston: Hall, 1993. [R 016.81 D553d]

E

Eberwein, Jane Donahue. Dickinson: Strategies of Limitation. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1985.

---, ed. An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia. Westport: Greenwood, 1998.

Erkkila, Betsy. The Wicked Sisters: Women Poets, Literary History, and Discord. New York: Oxford U P, 1992.

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Farr, Judith, ed. Emily Dickinson: A Collection of Critical Essays. New York: Prentice, 1995.

---. The Passion of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1992.

Ferlazzo, Paul J., ed. Critical Essays on Emily Dickinson. Boston: Hall, 1984

---. Emily Dickinson. New Haven: Twayne, 1984.

Ford, Thomas W. Heaven Beguiles the Tired: Death in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson. Ann Arbor: Books, ND.

Franklin, Ralph W. The Master Letters of Emily Dickinson. Amherst: Amherst College P, 1986.

Freeman, Margaret, ed. Emily Dickinson’s Imagery. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1979.

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Garbawosky, Maryanne. The House Without the Door: A Study of Emily Dickinson and the Illness of Agoraphobia. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1989.

Gelpi, Albert. Emily Dickinson: The Mind of the Poet. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1965.

---. “Emerson: The Paradox of Organic Form,” Ed. David Levin. Emerson. 149-70.

Gilbert, Sandra. “The Wayward Nun beneath the Hill: Emily Dickinson and that Mysteries of Womanhood.” Ed. Juhasz, Feminist Critics Read Emily Dickinson. 22-44.

Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale UP, 1979.

---. Shakespeare’s Sisters: Feminist Essays on Women Poets. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1979.

Grabher, Gudrunedt, Roland Hagenbuchle, and Christanne Miller, eds.The Emily Dickinson Handbook. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1998.

Greenberg, Robert M. Splintered Worlds: Fragmentation and the Ideal of Diversity in the Work of Emerson, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson. Boston: Northeastern UP, 1993.

Griffith, Clark. The Long Shadow: Emily Dickinson's Tragic Poetry. Princeton: Princeton U P, 1965.

Gubar, Susan. “‘The Blank Page’ and the Issues of Female Creativity.” Critical Inquiry 8, No. 2(Winter 1981): 243-63 (Special Issue on Writing and Critical Difference).

Guthrie, James R. Emily Dickinson's Vision: Illness and Identity in Her Poetry. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1998.

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Habegger, Alfred. My Wars are Laid Away in Books. New York: Random, 2001.

Hagenbuchle, Roland. “Precision and Indeterminacy in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson.” ESQ No. 20 (1973-74): 33-56.

---. “Sign and Process: The Concept of Language in Emerson and Dickinson.” ESQ 25 (1979): 137-55.

Hart, Ellen Louise, and Martha Nell Smith, eds. Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson. Ashfield, MA: Paris, 1998.

Homans, Margaret. Women Writers and Poetic Identity: Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Brontë, and Emily Dickinson. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1980.

---. “‘Oh, Vision of Language’ Dickinson’s Poems of Love and Death.” Ed. Juhasz. Feminist Critics Read Emily Dickinson. 114-33.

Howe, Susan. My Emily Dickinson. Berkeley: North Atlantic, 1985.

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J

Johnson, Greg. Emily Dickinson: Perception and the Poet’s Quest. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1985.

Johnson, Thomas H. Emily Dickinson: An Interpretive Biography. New York: Atheneum, 1980.

Juhaz, Suzanne. Comic Power in Emily Dickinson. Austin: U of Texas P, 1993.

---. The Undiscovered Continent: Emily Dickinson and the Space of Mind. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1983.

---, ed. Feminist Critics Read Emily Dickinson. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1983.

Juhasz, Suzanne, and Christine Miller, eds. Emily Dickinson: A Celebration for Readers. New York: Gordon, 1989.

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Keller, Karl. The Only Kangaroo Among the Beauty: Emily Dickinson and America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1979.

Kher, Inder Nath. The Landscape of Absence. New Haven: Yale UP, 1974.

Knapp, Bettina. Emily Dickinson. New York: Continuum, 1989.

Knox, Helene. “Metaphor and Metonymy in Emily Dickinson’s Figurative Thinking.” Massachusetts Studies in English VII, 4 and VIII, 1 (1981): 49-56 (Double Issue on Dickinson).

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Lease, Benjamin. Emily Dickinson's Reading of Men and Books : Sacred Soundings. New York: St. Martin's, 1990.

Leoffelholz, Mary. Dickinson and the Boundaries of Feminist Theory. Champaign: U of Illinois P, 1991.

Leyda, Jay. The Years and Hours of Emily Dickinson. New Haven: Yale UP, 1960.

Lindberg-Seyersted, Brita. The Voice of the Poet: Aspects of Style in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1966.

Longworth, Polly. The World of Emily Dickinson. New York: Norton, 1990, 1997.

Loving, Jerome. Emily Dickinson: The Poet of the Second Story. New York: Cambridge UP, 1987.

Lowenberg, Carlton, Territa A. Lowenberg, and Carla L. Brown, eds. Emily Dickinson’s Textbooks. Berkeley: West Coast Print Center, 1986. [R 828 D553L]

Lowenberg, Carlton. Musicians Wrestle Everywhere: Emily Dickinson and Music. Berkeley: Fallen Leaf, 1992.

Lucas, Dolores D. Emily Dickinson and Riddle. Dekalb: Norther Illinois UP, 1969.

Lundin, Roger. Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998.

M

McNeil, Helen. Emily Dickinson. New York: Pantheon, 1986.

Miller, Cristanne. Emily Dickinson: A Poet’s Grammar. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1987.

---. “How ‘Low Feet’ Stagger: Disruptions of Language in Dickinson’s Poetry.” Ed. Juhasz. Feminist Critics Read Emily Dickinson. 98-113.

Mitchell, Domhall. "Revising the Script: Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts." American Literature 70 (1998): 705-738.

Morris, Adelaide. “‘The Love of Thee -- a Prism Be’: Men and Women in the Love Poetry of Emily Dickinson.” Ed. Juhasz. Feminist Critics Read Emily Dickinson. 98-113.

Mossberg, Barbara Antomia Clarke. Emily Dickinson: When a Writer is a Daughter. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1982.

Myerson, Joel. Emily Dickinson: A Descriptive Biography. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1979. [R 016.81 D553m]

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Oberhaus, Dorothy H. Emily Dickinson's Fascicles: Method and Meaning. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1997.

Oliver, Virginia H. Apocalypse of Green: A Study of Emily Dickinson's Eschatology. New York: Lang, 1989.

Olney, James. The Language(s) of Poetry: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1993.

Orzeck, Art Z. Emily Dickinson and Audience. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1996.

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Patterson, Rebecca. The Riddle of Emily Dickinson. Boston: Houghton, 1951.

Petrino, Elizabeth A. Emily Dickinson and Her Contemporaries: Women's Verse in America, 1820-1885. Hanover: UP of New England, 1998.

Phillips, Elizabeth. Emily Dickinson: Personae and Performance. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1988.

Pollak, Vivian R. Dickinson: The Anxiety of Gender. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1984.

Porter, David. Dickinson: The Modern Idiom. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1981.

Pritchard, William H. Talking Back to Emily Dickinson and Other Essays. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1998.

Q

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R

Rich, Adrienne. “Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson.” On Lies, Secrets and Silence. New York: Norton, 1979.

Robinson, John. Emily Dickinson: Looking to Canaan. Boston: Faber, 1986.

Rosenbaum, S.P., ed. A Concordance to the Poems of Emily Dickinson. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1964.

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St. Armand, Barton Levi. Emily Dickinson and Her Culture: The Soul's Society. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1984.

Salska, Agnieszka. Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson: Poetry of the Central Consciousness. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1985.

Sewell, Richard. The Life of Emily Dickinson. New York: Farrar, 1974. 2 volumes.

---. Emily Dickinson: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice, 1963.

Sherwood, William R. Circumference and Circumstance: Stages in the Mind and Art of Emily Dickinson. New York: Columbia UP, 1968.

Shurr, William H. The Marriage of Emily Dickinson: A Study of the Fascicles. Lexington: U of Kentucky P, 1983.

Shurr, William H., Anna Dunlap, and Emily Grey Shurr, eds. New Poems of Emily Dickinson. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1993.

Small, Judy Jo. Positive as Sound: Emily Dickinson’s Rhyme. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1990.

Smith, Martha Nell. Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson. Austin: U of Texas P, 1992.

Smith, Robert M. The Seductions of Emily Dickinson. Tuscaloosa: U of Alabama P, 1997.

Sohn, Youngmi. The Challenge of Temporality: The Time Poems of Emily Dickinson. New York: Lang, 1995.

Sparrow, John. Hymns Unbidden: Donne, Herbert, Blake, Emily Dickinson, and the Hymnographers. New York: New York Public Library, 1966.

Stein, Rachel. Shifting the Ground: American Women Writers' Revisions of Nature, Gender, and Race. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1997.

Sielke, Sabine. Fashioning the Female Subject: The Intertextual Networking of Dickinson, Moore, and Rich. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1997.

Stonum, Gary Lee. The Dickinson Sublime. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1990.

Stocks, Kenneth. Emily Dickinson and the Modern Consciousness: A Poet of Our Time. New York: St. Martin’s, 1988.

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Thota, Anand R. Emily Dickinson and Metaphysical Tradition. Atlantic Highlands,NJ: Humanities, 1982.

Todd, Emerson J. Emily Dickinson’s Use of the Persona. Hawthorn, NY: Mouton, 1973.

U

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V

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W

Ward, R. Bruce. The Gift of Screws: The Poetic Strategies of Emily Dickinson. N.p.: n.p., 1994.

Wardrop, Daneen. Emily Dickinson's Gothic: Goblin With a Gauge. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1996.

Weisbuch, Robert. Emily Dickinson’s Poetry. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1975.

Werner, Marta L., ed. Emily Dickinson's Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1995.

Whicher, George. This Was a Poet: A Critical Biography of Emily Dickinson. New York: Scribner’s 1938.

Williams, Sherri. “‘omited centers’: Dickinson’s Metonymic Strategy.” San Jose Studies 13 (1987): 26-36.

Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. Emily Dickinson. New York: Knopf, 1986.

Wolosky, Shira. Emily Dickinson: A Voice of War. New Haven: Yale UP, 1984.

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Relevant Web Sites

Smith, Martha Nell, Ellen Louise Hart, and Marta Werner, General Editors. Dickinson Electronic Archives. Online. Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH), University of Virginia. Available: http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/dickinson/. 8 August 2000.

Emily Dickinson International Society

Emily Dickinson Journal

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