Emily Dickinson: Essential Secondary Bibliography
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The following categories give a brief and highly selective guide to secondary scholarly resources on Emily Dickinson. There are many, many others; my apologies to those authors who are not listed here. This site is meant to serve only as an introduction to print resources about the poet.
Bibliographies
Boswell, Jeannetta. Emily Dickinson: A Bibliography of Secondary Sources. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1989.
Duchac, Joseph. The Poems of Emily Dickinson: An Annotated Guide to Commentary Published in English, 1890-1977. Boston: Hall, 1979.
----. The Poems of Emily Dickinson: An Annotated Guide to Commentary Published in English, 1978-1989. Boston: Hall, 1993.
Myerson, Joel. Emily Dickinson: A Descriptive Bibliography. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1984. The definitive primary bibliography.
----. "Supplement to Emily Dickinson: A Descriptive Bibliography," The Emily Dickinson Journal 4.2 (1995): 87-128.
Collections of Essays and Reference Works
Blake, Caesar R., and Carlton F. Wells. The Recognition of Emily Dickinson: Selected Criticism Since 1890. Ann Arbor: U of MI P, 1964.
Eberwein, Jane Donahue, ed. An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood P, 1998.
Grabher, Gudrun, Roland Hagenbüchle, and Cristanne Miller, eds. The Emily Dickinson Handbook. Amherst: U of MA P, 1998.
Juhasz, Suzanne, ed. Feminist Critics Read Emily Dickinson. Bloomington: IN UP, 1983.
Orzeck, Martin, and Robert Wiesbuch, eds. Dickinson and Audience. Ann Arbor: U of MI P, 1996.
Biography
Capps, Jack L. Emily Dickinson's Reading. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1966.
Leyda, Jay. The Years and Hours of Emily Dickinson. New Haven: Yale UP, 1960.
Sewall, Richard B. The Life of Emily Dickinson. NY: Farrar, 1974.
Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. Emily Dickinson. NY: Knopf, 1986.
Critical Studies
Dickie, Margaret. Lyric Contingencies: Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens. Philadelphia: U of PA P, 1991.
Dobson, Joanne. Dickinson and the Strategies of Reticence. Bloomington: IN UP, 1989.
Howe, Susan. My Emily Dickinson. Berkeley: North Atlantic, 1985.
Loeffelholz, Mary. Dickinson and the Boundaries of Feminist Theory. Urbana: U of IL P, 1991.
Miller, Cristanne: Emily Dickinson: A Poet's Grammar. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1987.
Porter, David. Dickinson: The Modern Idiom. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1981.
St. Armand, Barton Levi. Emily Dickinson and Her Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1984.
Smith, Martha Nell. Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson. Austin: U of TX P, 1992.
Stonum, Gary Lee. The Dickinson Sublime. Madison: U of WI P, 1990.