Go to Extended Bibliography on Emily Dickinson, 1996-present
Go to Extended Bibliography on Emily Dickinson, 1995-1995
Go to Extended Bibliography on Emily Dickinson, beginnings to 1979
See the annual Dickinson chapter in American Literary Scholarship and issues of the Emily Dickinson Journal for a more in-depth critical assessment of Dickinson studies.
Anderson, Charles. Emily Dickinson's Poetry: Stairway of Surprise. Westport: Greenwood, 1982. Thematic approach to Dickinson's poetry moves from art through nature and on to inner world of death and immortality.
Benfey, Christopher. Emily Dickinson and the Problem of Others. Amherst: U Massachusetts P, 1984. Treats Dickinson as a thinker responsive to skepticism.
Bennett, Paula. "'By a Mouth That Cannot Speak': Spectral Presence in Emily Dickinson's Letters." Emily Dickinson Journal 1.2 (1992): 76-99.
Blake, Caesar R., and Carlton F. Wells, eds. The Recognition of Emily Dickinson. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1968. Collected essays.
Buckingham, Willis J. Emily Dickinson: An Annotated Bibliography. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1970. Covers 1850-1968.
Buckingham, Willis. "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.
Cameron, Sharon. Choosing Not Choosing: Dickinson's Fascicles. Chicago and London: U of Chicago P, 1992.
Capps, Jack L. Emily Dickinson's Reading: 1836-1886. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1966.
Cody, John. After Great Pain: The Inner Life of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge: Belknap-Harvard UP, 1971. Freudian readings of Dickinson's poems.
Crumbley, Paul. "Dickinson's Dashes and the Limits of Discourse." Emily Dickinson Journal 1.2 (1992): 8-29.
Dandurand, Karen. "New Dickinson Civil War Publication." American Literature 56 (1984): 17-27. Considers Dickinson's response to the war.
Dickinson, Emily. The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson. Ed. Thomas H. Johnson. Boston: Little, 1960.
Diehl, Joanne Feit. Dickinson and the Romantic Imagination. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1981. Dickinson's necessary subversion of Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, Emerson.
Donoghue, Denis. Emily Dickinson. U Minnesota Pamphlets of American Writers 81. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1969. Good introductory book for students.
Duchac, Joseph. Poems of Emily Dickinson: An Annotated Guide to Commentary Published in English, 1890-1977. Boston: Hall, 1979.
Erkkila, Betsy. The Wicked Sisters: Women Poets, Literary History, and Discord. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 1992.
Ferlazzo, Paul J. Emily Dickinson. Boston: Twayne, 1976. Good introductory book for students.
Ferlazzo, Paul. Critical Essays on Emily Dickinson. Boston: Hall, 1984.
Franklin, Ralph. The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson. 1981.
Gelpi, Albert. "Emily Dickinson and the Deerslayer: The Dilemma of the Woman Poet in America." In Gilbert and Gubar, Shakespeare's Sisters, 122-34.
Gelpi, Albert. Emily Dickinson: The Mind of the Poet. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1966.
Gilbert, Sandra, and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic. New Haven: Yale UP, 1979.
Griffith, Clark. The Long Shadow: Emily Dickinson's Tragic Poetry. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1964. Sees dread of ambiguity and fear as dominant.
Homans, Margaret. Women Writers and Poetic Identity: Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Brontë, and Emily Dickinson. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 1980.
Dickinson, Emily. The Letters of Emily Dickinson. 3 volumes. Ed. Thomas H. Johnson. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 1958.
Dickinson, Emily. The Poems of Emily Dickinson. 3 volumes. Ed. Thomas H. Johnson. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 1955.
Habegger, Alfred. My Wars are Laid Away in Books.
Holm Christensen, Lena. Editing Emily Dickinson : The Production of an Author. New York: Routledge, 2007.
Juhasz, Suzanne, ed. Feminist Critics Read Emily Dickinson. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1983.
Juhasz, Suzanne, Cristanne Miller, and Martha Nell Smith. Comic Power in Emily Dickinson. Austin: U of Texas P, 1993.
Keller, Karl. The Only Kangaroo among the Beauty. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1979. Discusses Dickinson's affinities with writers from Anne Bradstreet to Robert Frost.
Killingsworth, Jimmie. Whitman and Dickinson.
Leyda, Jay. The Years and Hours of Emily Dickinson. 2 vols. New Haven: Yale U P, 1960.
Lindeberg-Seyersted, Brita. The Voice of the Poet. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1960. Emphasizes language and style in Dickinson.
Loeffelholz, Mary. Dickinson and the Boundaries of Feminist Theory. 1991.
Loeffelholz, Mary. "Etruscan Invitations: Dickinson and the Anxiety of the Aesthetic in Feminist Criticism." Emily Dickinson Journal 5.1 (1996).
Martin, Wendy. The Cambridge Introduction to Emily Dickinson. Cambridge Introductions to Literature. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Miller, Cristanne. Emily Dickinson: A Poet's Grammar. Cambridge: Harvard U P, 1987.
Miller, Christanne. "Dickinson's Experiments in Language." The Emily Dickinson Handbook. Eds. Gudrun Grabher, et al.: U of Massachusetts P, Amherst, MA Pagination: 240-57, 1998. viii, 480.
Miller, Cristanne. "Whose Dickinson?" American Literary History 12.1&2 (Spring/Summer 2000): 230-253. Review essay of recent editions of Dickinson. (Project Muse)
Mitchell, Domhall. "Revising the Script: Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts." American Literature 70 (1998): 705-38.
Patterson, Rebecca. Emily Dickinson's Imagery. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1979.
Pickard, John B. Emily Dickinson: An Introduction and Interpretation. New York: Holt, 1967.
Porter, David. Art of Emily Dickinson's Early Poetry. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1966. Useful book.
Rich, Adrienne. "Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson." Classic essay: a poet's view of Dickinson. Rpt. in On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose 1966-1978. New York: Norton, 1979. 151-83. Also in Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. Shakespeare's Sisters : Feminist Essays on Women Poets. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1979.
Sewall, Richard. Emily Dickinson: A Collection of Critical Essays. Twentieth Century Views. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice, 1963.
Sewall, Richard. Life of Emily Dickinson. 2 vols. New York: Farrar, 1974.
Smith, Martha Nell. Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson. Austin: U of Texas P, 1992.
---. "Computing: What's American Literary Study Got to Do with It?" American Literature 74.4 (2002): 833-57.
Smith, Martha Nell, and Mary Loeffelholz. A Companion to Emily Dickinson. Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
St. Armand, Barton Levi. Emily Dickinson and Her Culture. New York: Cambridge UP, 1984. Uses an interdisciplinary approach to relate Dickinson to American culture from folk art to the Hudson River school. St. Armand suggests that Dickinson's use of fascicles is related to the 19c. genre of "poetry of the portfolio," a type admired by Emerson.
Werner, Marta, ed. Emily Dickinson's Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing. Ann Arbor: U of Texas P, 1995.
Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. Emily Dickinson. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1988.
