Selected
Secondary Bibliography
Extended Bibliography on Emily Dickinson, 1996-present
Extended Bibliography on Emily Dickinson, 1980-1995
Extended Bibliography on Emily Dickinson, beginnings to 1979
Common
Questions on Emily Dickinson (class notes)
Guidelines
for reading Dickinson's poetry
Excerpts from criticism on Dickinson's poetry(.pdf file)
- Biography and selected poems from the American Academy of Poets.
- Dickinson Electronic Archives. Descriptions and selected materials from this excellent and important project are available, although some portions are limited to subscribers. Sections include the "Emily Dickinson Writing a Poem" site, essays on Whitman and Dickinson, and facsimile reproductions of their manuscripts.
- New Photograph of Emily Dickinson. Professor Philip Gura of the University of North Carolina has discovered a previously unknown photograph of Emily Dickinson.You can read the story of Professor Gura's acquisition of the photograph at the online journal Common-place.
- Emily Dickinson: Early Feminist Essays. This site includes early reviews and biographical reminiscences.
- Foregrounds and Apprenticeships. This site focuses on Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman, including Dickinson's relationship with Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Whitman's with Emerson. It contains a timeline, excerpts from letters and criticism, and a bibliography.
- Site for Loaded Gun, a controversial new PBS documentary on Emily Dickinson. From the PBS site: "LOADED GUN dissects the meaning of its puzzling title poem, speculates about Dickinson's possible love affairs and recasts the poet in an array of contradictory personas: Emily as sexualized seductress, anxiety-ridden basket case, sarcastic comedian, reluctant interview subject, childlike genius, tormented spinster - even a talented second baseman."
- Virtual Emily.This site at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst includes biographical information and pictures of family members and important places in Dickinson's life.
- Emily Dickinson Homestead and Museum.
- Emily Dickinson International Society. Information on joining; minutes of meetings.
- Emily Dickinson Page at about.com. Contains a biographical sketch and information by Jone Johnson Lewis, pictures of Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and many links to Dickinson resources.
- Graphic artist Gabrielle Bell's version of "It was not death, for I stood up" at poetryfoundation.org.
- Interviews with Alfred Habegger, author of My Wars are Laid Away in Books, are online at NPR's Morning Edition at http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20011127.me.15.ram;Maureen Corrigan's review from the same site at http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20011127.me.15.ram.
- Poems at Bartleby.com. This searchable site consists of 597 poems from the 1924 edition of Dickinson's poems.
- Poems by Emily Dickinson (3 series, complete) from Project Gutenberg
- Poems by Emily Dickinson (American Verse Project of the University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative). This searchable site includes all three of the Dickinson volumes first published by Little, Brown :
- Poems 1-1775 in the Thomas Johnson edition (more poems available)
- Dickinson's
poems read by Laura Lee Parrotti
Essays on Dickinson
- See the essays available at the Dickinson Electronic Archives.
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Emily Dickinson's Letters (Atlantic, 1891; New URL)
- "Unfastening the Fascicles." A collection of critical essays from a 1997 roundtable discussion.
