This bibliography will eventually cover English-language criticism and scholarship on Emily Dickinson from 1900 to the present day. The focus is on discrete pieces of academic criticism; most reviews (unless of great intrinsic interest) and most brief treatments of Dickinson in longer works are excluded. Dissertations are included; when you see the references DA or DAI, the source is Dissertation Abstracts or its successor Dissertation Abstracts International. There are many print bibliographies on Dickinson; this web site is meant to complement them.
For scholarship and criticism before 1900, see Willis J. Buckingham's definitive collection Emily Dickinson's Reception in the 1890s: A Documentary History (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989).
This online bibliography will grow and may change format as it does. For the moment, the following sections are open:
Copyright © 2000 Tim Morris
last updated 27 September 2000