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Dickinson Bibliographies

• Boswell, Jeanetta. Emily Dickinson: A Bibliography of Secondary Sources, with Selective Annotations, 1890 through 1987. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1989. Unusually comprehensive bibliography lists 2,496 items, including reviews, dissertations, ephemera, poetic tributes, &c.

• Buckingham, Willis J. Emily Dickinson: An Annotated Bibliography . Writings, Scholarship, Criticism and Ana 1850-1968. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1970.

• Clendenning, Sheila T. Emily Dickinson: A Bibliography: 1850-1966. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1968. Annotated; superseded almost at once by Buckingham (above).

• Duchac, Joseph. The Poems of Emily Dickinson: An Annotated Guide to Commentary Published in English, 1890-1977. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1979. Poem-by-poem summary of interpretive criticism; this work and its successor volume (below) are invaluable.

• ---. The Poems of Emily Dickinson: An Annotated Guide to Commentary Published in English, 1978-1989. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1993. Poem-by-poem summary of interpretive criticism.

• [Jones Library]. Emily Dickinson: A Bibliography. Amherst: The Jones Library, 1930. Both primary and secondary sources.

• Myerson, Joel. Emily Dickinson: A Descriptive Bibliography. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984. The definitive primary bibliography.

• ---. "Supplement to Emily Dickinson: A Descriptive Bibliography," The Emily Dickinson Journal 4.2 (1995): 87-128. "Including new information found through 1993."

• Polk, Mary Lynn Cooper. "Emily Dickinson: A survey of the criticism and selective annotated bibliography." DAI 45: 1399A (1984). [South Carolina] Mainly covers 1968-1981.

• Rosenbaum, S.P. A Concordance to the Poems of Emily Dickinson. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1964.

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