Emily Dickinson

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About Emily

  • The Mouse of Amherst by Elizabeth Spires
  • Emily by Michael Bedrad and Barbara Clooney (2002)
  • Emily Dickinson's Letters to the World by Jeanette Winter (2002)
  • The Trouble with Emily Dckinson by Lyndsey D'Arcangelo (2012)
  • The Mouse of Amherst by Elizabeth Spires (2001)
  • My Uncle Emily by Jane Yoken (2009)
  • The Emily Sonnets: The Life of Emily Dickinson by Jane Yolen (2012)
  • Emily and Carlo by Marty Rhodes Figley (2012)
  • A Voice of Her Own: Becoming Emily Dickinson by Barbara Dana (2009)
  • We Dickinsons by Aileen Fisher nnd Olive Rabe (1965)
  • The World of Emily Dickinson by Polly Longsworth (1997)

Collections of Poems

  • Poetry for Young People: Emily Dickinson by Frances Schoonmaker Brolin
  • Poems by Emily Dickinson (2010)
  • Poems for Youth by Emily Dickinson (1995)
  • I'm Nobody! Who Are You? (1994)
  • My Letter to the World and Other Poems (Visions in Poetry) (2008)






Resources

 The Dickinson children (Emily on the left), ca. 1840. From the Dickinson Room at Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Bibliography for adults

Biographies and Related Historical Works

  • Benfey, Christopher.  A Summer of Hummingbirds:  Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, & Martin Johnson Heade. 2008.
  • Bianchi, Martha Dickinson. Emily Dickinson Face to Face: Unpublished Letters with Notes and Reminiscences. Boston:  1932.
  • Bingham, Millicent Todd.  Emily Dickinson's Home Letters of Edward Dickinson and His Family.  1955.
  • Farr, Judith. The Passion of Emily Dickinson. 1998.
  • ----. The Gardens of Emily Dickinson. 2005
  • -----. (preface) Emily Dickinson's Herbarium: A Facsimilie Edition. 2006.
  • Gordon, Lyndall. Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds. 2011.
  • Grabher, ed. The Emily Dickinson Handbook. 2009.
  • Habegger, Alfred. My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson. 2001.
  • Kirk, Connie Ann. Emily Dickinson: A Biography.  2001.
  • Longsworth, Polly. The World of Emily Dickinson.  1990.
  • Lundin, Roger. Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief.  1998.
  • Pollak, Vivian r., ed. A Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson. 2004.
  • Sewall, Richard B. The Life of Emily Dickinson., 1974.(Winner of National Book Award)
  • Sierra, Patricia. Emily Dickinson: Beyond the Myth. 2009.
  • Whicher, George Frisbie. This Was a Poet: A Critical Biography of Emily Dickinson. 1938. Reprinted with an introduction by Richard Sewall by Amherst College Press, 1992.
  • Wineapple, Brenda.  White Heat:  The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson.  2008.
  • Wolff, Cynthia G. Emily Dickinson. 1986.

Recent Editions of Emily Dickinson’s Poems (in chronological order)

  • The Poems of Emily Dickinson. Ed. Thomas Johnson. )Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, 1955).
  • The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson. Ed. R.W. Franklin. (Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, 1981).
  • The Poems of Emily Dickinson. Ed. R.W. (Franklin. Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, 1998).
  • The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (New York: Modern Library, 2004), includes an introduction by Billy Collins;
  • Essential Dickinson (New York: Ecco, 1996),  includes an introduction by Joyce Carol Oates.
  • The Poems of Emily Dickinson, Reading Edition. Ed. R.W. (Franklin. Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, 1999).
  • Radical Scatters: Emily Dickinson's Fragments and Related Texts, 1870-1886. Ed. Marta Werner.  )University of Michigan Press, 1999). 

 Emily Dickinson’s Letters

  • The Letters of Emily Dickinson. Ed. Thomas Johnson and Theodora V. Ward. , 1958.
  • Emily Dickinson: Selected Letters. Ed. Thomas Johnson.  1971.
  • Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson. Ed. Ellen Louise Hart and Martha Nell Smith.  1998.
  • Reading Emily Dickinson's Letters: Critical Essays. Ed. Jane Donahue Eberwein. 2011.