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21. My Emily Dickinson (New Directions
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22. New Poems of Emily Dickinson
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23. My Wars Are Laid Away in Books:
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24. Selected Poetry of Emily Dickinson
 
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25. Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily
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26. The Cambridge Introduction to
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27. Emily Dickinson: A Poet's Grammar
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28. The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson
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29. Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems
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30. Emily Dickinson (Radcliffe Biography
 
31. This Was a Poet: A Critical Biography
 
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32. Emily Dickinson and Audience
 
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33. A Companion to Emily Dickinson
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34. Emily Dickinson:A Biography
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35. An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia
 
36. Emily Dickinson and the Life of
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37. Emily Dickinson's Letters to the
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38. Emily Dickinson (Bloom's Modern
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39. The Gardens of Emily Dickinson
 
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21. My Emily Dickinson (New Directions Paperbook)
by Susan Howe
Paperback: 160 Pages (2007-11-15)
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Finally, My Emily Dickinson, Susan Howe's singular and unforgettable 1985 creative study, is available as a New Directions paperbook.

With exacting rigor and wit, Howe pulls Dickinson free of all the sterile and stuffy belle-of-Amherst cotton wool and shows the poet in touch with elemental forces of nature, and as a prophet in all her radical zealotry and poetic glory. Her Emily Dickinson is a unique American genius, a demon lover of poetry—no neurasthenic spider artist. Howe draws into her discussion Browning, Wuthering Heights, the Civil War, "Master," the great Puritan preachers, captivity narratives, Shakespeare, and phantom lovers. As she chases away narrow and reductive feminist readings of the poet, Howe finds instead a radically powerful and true feminism at work in Dickinson, focusing the whole on that heart-stopping poem "My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun."

A remarkable and passionate poet-on-poet engagement, My Emily Dickinson frees a great poet from the fetters of being read as a special female neurotic, and sets her against a fiery open sky where "Perception of an object means loosing and losing it...only Mutability certain." My Emily Dickinson won The Before Columbus Foundation Book Award. ... Read more

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3-0 out of 5 stars Oddly composed, but with a few fine opals inside...
I have been pretty much obsessed with Emily Dickinson since 1980, and have enjoyed reading many treatments of her life and her poems, while enduring many other books about her. She is quite a mystery, and shall always remain so, becoming the kind of woman and poet that each generation seems to need. I did not like this author's prose style, which seemed to me to have many sentence fragments and many abrupt transitions which did not seem logical. However, it does contain one of the best meditations on Emily's literary and theological influences, including the preacher Jonathan Edwards, and the Brownings, and the Brontes, and Shakespeare. For that reason, it is worth reading if you care about the Belle of Amherst at all. I found myself drawn to her poetry from high school on, but over the decades, becoming much more fascinated with her life choices and experiences. We will never know for sure how many poems are autobiographical, how many actually describe her take on the experiences of her small but intense social circle, and how many are pure fiction. What an impact she has made on the literary world, by living the life of a fairly affluent New England spinster who did not get out much. That is endlessly fascinating to me. Unfortunately it is not the thrust of this volume. My recommendation is to start with Richard Sewell's huge biography of Emily from the 1970's. It covers the life AND the poetry in a reasonable and accessible manner. Some think Emily a secular nun, some think her a deeply closeted lesbian and/or incest victim, some feel she had many love affairs but was discrete about them. Some think her insane, some believe her to be the sanest of us all. Some find her an early feminist, and others see her as an oppressed woman. This book is one fellow female poet's appreciation of Emily's talents and circumstances. Wait another year and another scholar will present a different view. Emily left us 1,776 poems, give or take a few hidden in the text of letters, and someday there will be 1,776 books about her.

4-0 out of 5 stars My Emily Dickinson
This book is not for the faint of intellect.It is a challenging book for most readers, I believe. Ms. Howe takes you on a poetic journey well worth taking.

5-0 out of 5 stars Very Interesting Take
This book does more than just explore Dickinson's life and poetics, although it does that expertly. It falls in line with a tradition of books of poets writing about poets who have intensely figured in their conception of poetry. This is more personal than a biography in that it is a writer's concern with Dickinson's place in history and what she was trying to do with her poetry. Howe does a wonderful job of trying to get into the poems through playing with language. It's a place to meet Dickinson at as she was a lover of games and words.

3-0 out of 5 stars Tremendously overrated book
I was tempted to give it a lower score, but that wouldn't be due to its merits; it wouldn't be fair.See, this book is pretty much average.There are dozens of books on Dickinson that are more insightful, balanced, and intelligent--but wherever you meet the adepts of certain poetry schools, you hear things like "This is the best book on Dickinson ever."It's truly remarkable to hear this, since none of these people have ever actually read any other books on Dickinson; they're acolytes of the witless schools of poetry called L=a=n=g=u=a=g=e, which means they exalt their own.Be assured, anyone who gives high praise to this fiercely unexceptional book just doesn't know all the other Dickinson books that are so much more stimulating.

5-0 out of 5 stars If you think you know Emily...
This is a serious and personal literary study of Dickinson's work by a scholar and fellow poet who appreciates both the art and the attitude of one of her American literary forebears.

Howe points out how Dickinson'spoetry has been overlooked in light of her character and biography. Itseems that in the 19th century, it was remarkable for a woman to be a poetat all, let alone write original, rebellious, and quite modern poetry.Hence, the work itself, though enjoyed by schoolchildren all over America,has been little understood.

Delving into Dickinson's reading lists, hernotes and letters, and analyzing a few poems, Howe explores the workings ofan intricate mind. She uncovers connections between Dickinson and theBrownings, the Brontes, and James Fenimore Cooper, and she shows howseemingly submissive, soft spoken poetic lines are actually rebellious andeven at times angry. What Howe does not do is confuse the image of"The Belle of Amhearst" with the vital workings of the mind ofthis remarkable woman.

This book is an enjoyable read filled with Howe'sadmiration for her artistic predecessor and written in straightforwardlanguage, not literary jargon--a tribute from one poet to another. Foranyone who enjoys Emily Dickinson's poetry, it is not to be missed. ... Read more


22. New Poems of Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson
Paperback: 136 Pages (1993-09-24)
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For most of her life Emily Dickinson regularly embedded poems, disguised as prose, in her lively and thoughtful letters. Although many critics have commented on the poetic quality of Dickinson's letters, William Shurr is the first to draw fully developed poems from them. In this remarkable volume, he presents nearly 500 new poems that he and his associates excavated from her correspondence, thereby expanding the canon of Dickinson's known poems by almost one-third and making a remarkable addition to the study of American literature.

Here are new riddles and epigrams, as well as longer lyrics that have never been seen as poems before. While Shurr has reformatted passages from the letters as poetry, a practice Dickinson herself occasionally followed, no words, punctuation, or spellings have been changed. Shurr points out that these new verses have much in common with Dickinson's well-known poems: they have her typical punctuation (especially the characteristic dashes and capitalizations); they use her preferred hymn or ballad meters; and they continue her search for new and unusual rhymes. Most of all, these poems continue Dickinson's remarkable experiments in extending the boundaries of poetry and human sensibility. ... Read more


23. My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson
by Alfred Habegger
Kindle Edition: 800 Pages (2001-12-15)
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Emily Dickinson, probably the most loved and certainly the greatest of American poets, continues to be seen as the most elusive.One reason she has become a timeless icon of mystery for many readers is that her developmental phases have not been clarified.In this exhaustively researched biography, Alfred Habegger presents the first thorough account of Dickinson’s growth–a richly contextualized story of genius in the process of formation and then in the act of overwhelming production.

Building on the work of former and contemporary scholars, My Wars Are Laid Away in Books brings to light a wide range of new material from legal archives, congregational records, contemporary women's writing, and previously unpublished fragments of Dickinson’s own letters.Habegger discovers the best available answers to the pressing questions about the poet: Was she lesbian? Who was the person she evidently loved? Why did she refuse to publish and why was this refusal so integral an aspect of her work? Habegger also illuminates many of the essential connection sin Dickinson’s story: between the decay of doctrinal Protestantism and the emergence of her riddling lyric vision; between her father’s political isolation after the Whig Party’s collapse and her private poetic vocation; between her frustrated quest for human intimacy and the tuning of her uniquely seductive voice.

The definitive treatment of Dickinson’s life and times, and of her poetic development, My Wars Are Laid Away in Books shows how she could be both a woman of her era and a timeless creator.Although many aspects of her life and work will always elude scrutiny, her living, changing profile at least comes into focus in this meticulous and magisterial biography.Download Description
Offering a convincingly clear picture of what Emily Dickinson was really like, Habegger presents the definitive treatment of her life in the context of her times and the development of her poetry. ... Read more


24. Selected Poetry of Emily Dickinson (New York Public Library Collector's Editions)
by Emily Dickinson
Hardcover: 336 Pages (1997-04-14)
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In partnership with the New York Public Library, Doubleday is proud to introduce a very special collector's series of literary masterpieces. Lavishly illustrated with rare archival material from the library's extensive resources, including the renowned Berg collection, these editions will bring the classics to life for a new generation of readers. In addition to original artwork, each volume contains a fascinating selection of unique materials such as handwritten diaries, letters, manuscripts, and notebooks. Simply put, this series presents the work of our most beloved authors in what may well be their most beautiful editions, perfect to own or to give. Published on the occasion of Doubleday's 100th birthday, the New York Public Library Collector's Editions are sure to become an essential part of the modern book lover's private library.



This collection of Emily Dickinson's poems, compiled by the librarians most familiar with her work and complemented by several of the poet's handwritten letters, is illustrated with lithographs by Will Barnet and pen-and-ink drawings by Stephen Tennant, artists who have drawn inspiration from Dickinson's poetry. It is a beautiful and affordable celebration of the work of one of our favorite poets. ... Read more


25. Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson
by Martha Nell Smith
 Paperback: 286 Pages (1992-12)
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". . . original and provocative . . . Martha Nell Smith convincingly answers those who continue to ask why Dickinson did not publish more while she was alive. The author also offers a revisionist interpretation of the relationship between the poet and her sister-in-law, Susan Gilbert Dickinson, whose role in both the poetic process and subsequent publication of Dickinson's work she contends is much more significant than critics to date believe." --Belles Lettres ... Read more


26. The Cambridge Introduction to EmilyDickinson (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)
by Wendy Martin
Paperback: 158 Pages (2007-03-19)
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Emily Dickinson is best known as an intensely private, even reclusive writer. Yet the way she has been mythologised has meant her work is often misunderstood. This introduction delves behind the myth to present a poet who was deeply engaged with the issues of her day. In a lucid and elegant style, the book places her life and work in the historical context of the Civil War, the suffrage movement, and the rapid industrialisation of the United States. Wendy Martin explores the ways in which Dickinson's personal struggles with romantic love, religious faith, friendship and community shape her poetry. The complex publication history of her works, as well as their reception, is teased out, and a guide to further reading is included. Dickinson emerges not only as one of America's finest poets, but also as a fiercely independent intellect and an original talent writing poetry far ahead of her time. ... Read more


27. Emily Dickinson: A Poet's Grammar
by Cristanne Miller
Paperback: 256 Pages (1989-10-15)
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28. The Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson (Modern Library)
by Emily Dickinson
Hardcover: 320 Pages (1996-06-03)
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Archibald MacLeish has noted the "curious energy" which pervades Emily Dickinson's work. She, along with Walt Whitman, helps make up the very foundation of American poetry. This Modern Library edition from Random House is an excellent overview of Dickinson's work, divided by theme, including "Life," "Nature," "Love," and so forth. This volume of selected poems is a must for any serious reader of American poetry.Book Description
Emily Dickinson lived as a recluse in Amherst, Massachusetts, dedicating herself to writing a "letter to the world"--the 1,775 poems left unpublished at her death in 1886. Today, Dickinson stands in the front rank of American poets. This enthralling collection includes more than four hundred poems that were published between Dickinson's death and 1900. They express her concepts of life and death, of love and nature, and of what Henry James called "the landscape of the soul." And as Billy Collins suggests in his Introduction, "In the age of the workshop, the reading, the poetry conference and festival, Dickinson reminds us of the deeply private nature of literary art."


From the Trade Paperback edition. ... Read more

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2-0 out of 5 stars Sanitized Emily
Emily Dickinson is a genius and great poet, but this isn't the way to experience her work. Dickinson's distinctive punctuation and capitalization are "corrected"; the effect is maybe a smoother read but one far less rich in implications and possibilities. The division of the poems employed here , and in many of the older collections ("Life," "Nature," "Love," "Time and Eternity") are not Dickinson's, and are not very useful in experiencing the poems. In my opinion, this volume omits many of Emily's best poems and includes some of her least interesting/ daring. Of course, there can be many varying opinions as to what Emily's best work was, but since all of her poems are collected in one manageable volume there's no need to let someone else decide that for you. As another reviewer has said, the Johnson "Complete Poems" volume is what you want.

2-0 out of 5 stars This isn't quite the letter Emily was writing to the world...
I picked up this selection of Dickinson's poems on a whim because I am a huge fan of her poetry--it simply reaches to your very soul and leaves you rapt in awe.However--I must say--that I am sorely disappointed with this edition of selected poems.As one of the other reviewers has stated, this edition has been greatly tampered with--the editors have reworked the punctuation and capitalization stylistic genius of Dickinson and bastardized it to accommodate the modern reader--but, honestly, to do this severely detracts from Dickinson's so very unique voice.Particularly, the editors employed the comma as a replacement for her frivolous usage of the dash, which left me squirming in distaste--it nearly ruins the poems in my opinion.To "fix" a poem--punctuation or otherwise--is to change the very essence behind it--I was very surprised the editors would take such strange liberties in modifying these poems.If you're a stickler about poetry, this is not the edition for you.But if you wish to simply read these poems for the sake of reading them, then you may be ok with this edition--but I still would recommend against it; you don't quite get the same sense of Dickinson's subtle and profound examinations of the world.

5-0 out of 5 stars You gotta buy this book.
This book is awesome! Everyone should buy it.

3-0 out of 5 stars This is not really the edition you want.
I don't doubt that it's possible to enjoy Emily Dickinson's poems in editions like this.But you should be aware that you are not really reading what she wrote.You are reading what earlier editors _wish_ she had written - a sort of 'tidied-up' and regularized version, thebadly tampered-with-text of a genius by those who weren't.

In a way, the situation is a bit like the one that prevails with regard to food.Would you rather eat natural food or genetically modified food?Maybe the modified food doesn't taste any different, but it might be doing harmful things to us that the author of real food never intended.So why take a risk when we can have the real thing ?

There are two major editors who can be relied on for accurate texts of ED's poems.These are Dickinson scholars R. W. Franklin and Thomas H. Johnson.Both produced large Variorum editions for scholars, alongwith reader's editions of the Complete Poems for the ordinary reader.Details of their respective reader's editions are as follows.

THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON : Reading Edition.Edited byR. W. Franklin.692 pp.Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999.ISBN 0-674-67624-6 (hbk.)

THE COMPLETE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON.Edited by Thomas H. Johnson. 784 pp. Boston : Little, Brown, 1960 and Reissued.ISBN: 0316184136 (pbk.)

For those who don't feel up to tackling the Complete Poems, there is Johnson's abridgement of his Reader's edition, an excellent selectionof what he feels were her best poems:

FINAL HARVEST : Emily Dickinson's Poems.Edited by Thomas H. Johnson. 352 pages.New York : Little Brown & Co, 1997. ISBN: 0316184152 (paperbound).

Friends, do yourself a favor and get Johnson's edition.Why accept a watered-down version when you can have the real thing?

3-0 out of 5 stars This is not really the edition you want.
I don't doubt that it's possible to enjoy Emily Dickinson's poems in editions like this.But you should be aware that you are not really reading what she wrote.You are reading what earlier editors _wish_ she had written - a sort of 'tidied-up' and regularized version, thebadly tampered-with-text of a genius by those who weren't.

In a way, the situation is a bit like the one that prevails with regard to food.Would you rather eat natural food or genetically modified food?Maybe the modified food doesn't taste any different, but it might be doing harmful things to you that the author of real food never intended.So why take a risk when we can have the real thing ?

There are two major editors who can be relied on for accurate texts of ED's poems.These are Dickinson scholars R. W. Franklin and Thomas H. Johnson.Both produced large Variorum editions for scholars, alongwith reader's editions of the Complete Poems for the ordinary reader.Details of their respective reader's editions are as follows.

THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON : Reading Edition.Edited byR. W. Franklin.692 pp.Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999.ISBN 0-674-67624-6 (hbk.)

THE COMPLETE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON.Edited by Thomas H. Johnson. 784 pp. Boston : Little, Brown, 1960 and Reissued.ISBN: 0316184136 (pbk.)

For those who don't feel up to tackling the Complete Poems, there is Johnson's abridgement of his Reader's edition, an excellent selectionof what he feels were her best poems:

FINAL HARVEST : Emily Dickinson's Poems.Edited by Thomas H. Johnson. 352 pages.New York : Little Brown & Co, 1997. ISBN: 0316184152 (paperbound).

Friends, do yourself a favor and get Johnson's edition.Why accept a watered-down version when you can have the real thing? ... Read more


29. Emily Dickinson: Selected Poems (Bloomsbury Classic Poetry)
by Emily Dickinson
Hardcover: 128 Pages (1993-08-15)
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Because I could not stop for Death-
He kindly stopped for me-
The carriage held but just ourselves-
And Immortality.

Bloomsbury Poetry Classics are selections from the work of some of our greatest poets. The series is aimed at the general reader rather than the specialist and carries no critical or explanatory apparatus. This can be found elsewhere. In the series the poems introduce themselves, on an uncluttered page and in a format that is both attractive and convenient. The selections have been made by the distinguished poet, critic, and biographer Ian Hamilton.
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5-0 out of 5 stars I love to see it lap the miles/ and lick the valleys up
One of the true originals. One of the great poets who seem to invent a language, a world of metaphor of her own. A delight in her difficulty and a deep pleasure in her sombre tunes.

"Exultation is the going of an inland soul to sea/ Past the headlands , past the houses / into deep Eternity. "

5-0 out of 5 stars Hidden meaning and insight in every poem.............
I love poetry but had not read many if any of emily dickinson so I picked this up to read in my spare time.At first glance the book and poems seemed so simple and easy to read.I thought it would be a small little delight to read her short poems while waiting in the car, or at the bank, in line at the grocier, but as I embarked on a stolen moment with the poems of emily dickinson you discover her poems are hardly simple.

Every poem seems has more than one meaning. You can truely see how complicated this simple woman must have been even in her observations.

I have been delighted by her insight and each poem makes me wonder of the woman who wrote them. A lovely read.

5-0 out of 5 stars A prism which captures the white light of reality
Just as a prism breaks up light into a band of colors - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet - and their infinite gradations, so do Emily Dickinson's poems become, as it were, a prism which captures the white light of reality, a reality which as it flows through the prism of her poem explodes into a multiplicity of meanings.

It is the rich suggestiveness of her poems, a suggestiveness which generates an incredible range of meanings, that prevents us from ever being able to say (to continue the metaphor) that a given poem is 'about red' or 'about blue,' because her poems, as US critic Robert Weisbuch has observed, are in fact about _everything_. This is what makes her so unique, and this is why she appeals to every kind of reader (or certainly to open-minded ones) and even to children.

Emily Dickinson's poetry is one of the wonders of the world. ... Read more


30. Emily Dickinson (Radcliffe Biography Series)
by Cynthia Griffin Wolff
Paperback: 676 Pages (1988-06-01)
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4-0 out of 5 stars Good Stuff
The greatest strength of this biography is found in its interpretations of ED's poems.Wolff is a careful and insightful reader, capable of teasing out many layers of meaning in even the most elliptical pieces.Her analyses sometimes left me breathless; there's a special pleasure in discovering new meanings in familiar poems.

As noted by another reviewer, Wolff does approach this biography with a kind of agenda.She is most interested in demonstrating how Dickinson rebelled (both in work and life) against the Trinitarian Christianity of her upbringing.Wolff really excels here, and her insight is delicious.Wolff also imbues her readings with a feminist tilt; she never descends into theoretical jargon, but her readings are often skewed by her concern with gender.I wasn't bothered by this, since her interpretations still proved fruitful and provocative.Wolff is weakest in describing ED's relationship with her mother; the psychological bent she brings to this rings a bit hollow for me, and she rides her insight about the infant poet's emotional deprivation through the entire work.Her speculation, in my opinion, isn't helpful or needed.

As a life story, this volume isn't quite so complete as it might've been.It's more a work of criticism than biographical scholarship (although Wolff brings much learning to bear in her critiques on ED's work).If you're interested in the specifics of Dickinson's life, I'd recommend starting with Sewall's monumental biography.

It's also worth noting that some critics have disagreed with Wolff's commentary on Dickinson's life, particular the poet's childhood (Wolff's take on it is rather bleak, a conclusion not necessarily supported by the historical records).I'm not a Dickinson scholar, so I can't answer to these arguments.I do love ED's poetry deeply, however, and found this book a compassionate and fascinating read.

5-0 out of 5 stars Penetrating View of ED's Thought-World and Private Language
Having read (more or less) every biography of Dickinson -- perhaps the greatest poet in English and one of the great literary sensibilities on record -- Cynthia Wolff's is the one which stands out as placing her in the appropriate context.Other biographies (for example, Sewell's) may contain a greater degree of sheer information, but none is so intelligently selective as this.Wolff's scholarship is something one can only marvel at.She attempts to, and succeeds brilliantly at, surrounding Dickinson by her literary and cultural milieu, the revivalist fervor sweeping New England at the time, her familial dynamics, the role of someone of her gender and class at that place and time.Rather than see just the face of Dickinson, a full portrait of her world emerges.

Wolff's readings are unconventional because, quite frankly, she's one of the few who's gone to the trouble of realizing that Dickinson had an ICONOGRAPHY, that certain terms appear with regularity of time and meaning."Ample", "wrestle", "elect", "father", "bird", "bee"-- one can go on and on, if one really looks -- all derive meaning *cumulatively* from Dickinson's poetic work and voluminous, lapidarian correspondence.Many terms are consistently ironic, or mean their opposites; 'reading' the poems without realizing this will produce the kinds of interpretations produced with disappointing regularity by less careful critics.Wolff has drunk it all in, and synthesized it, in a monumental work of decipherment.

This probably shouldn't be the only Dickinson biography one reads.But it should be at the top of any such list.

3-0 out of 5 stars Emily Dickinson by Cynthia Griffin Wolff
This work should be read by anyone interested in biography, but not for reasons the author might suspect. Here is a perfect example of biography as personal agenda. Here is biography as a skillfully written---butconvoluted---interpretation of the life, letters and poems of EmilyDickinson.

Wolff should have written an editorial and clearly marked itas such.

However, one good service was provided. My friends and I wouldread a poem being discussed by Wolff, and then read her "forced"interpretation of it. We had many hearty laughs. But we also felt genuinepity for Wolff. Is this what she has to do to defend her agenda? Does shehave no other means?

I do not worry about scholars reading this book. Infact they should read it. They will easily discover those parts that areuseful---and there are many---and discard the rest. But what about youngstudents? What of those who do not know Emily and pick this book as theirfirst meeting with her?

Instead, may I suggest they read "TheCapsule of the Mind" by Theodora Ward. It is also a psychological lookat Emily Dickinson. Ward is the granddaughter of Doctor and Mrs. JosiahGilbert Holland, two of Emily's closest friends. Ward was also an assistantto Thomas H. Johnson, Harvard University, the person most responsible forbringing us Emily's letters and poems. In fact, Ward herself was inspiredto become a Dickinson scholar when she discovered sixty-five of Emily'sletters in her family's attic.

Cynthia Wolff, please spare us yourpolitically correct---but factually incorrect---views on EmilyDickinson.

Joe Psarto,Westlake,Ohio

3-0 out of 5 stars Emily Dickinson by Cynthia Griffin Wolff
This work should be read by anyone interested in biography, but not for reasons the author might suspect. Here is a perfect example of biography as personal agenda. Here is biography as a skillfully written---butconvoluted---interpretation of the life, letters and poems of EmilyDickinson.

Wolff should have written an editorial and clearly marked itas such.

However, one good service was provided. My friends and I wouldread a poem being discussed by Wolff, and then read her "forced"interpretation of it. We had many hearty laughs. But we also felt genuinepity for Wolff. Is this what she has to do to defend her agenda? Does shehave no other means?

I do not worry about scholars reading this book. Infact they should read it. They will easily discover those parts that areuseful---and there are many---and discard the rest. But what about youngstudents? What of those who do not know Emily and pick this book as theirfirst meeting with her?

Instead, may I suggest they read "TheCapsule of the Mind" by Theodora Ward. It is also a psychological lookat Emily Dickinson. Ward is the granddaughter of Doctor and Mrs. JosiahGilbert Holland, two of Emily's closest friends. Ward was also an assistantto Thomas H. Johnson, Harvard University, the person most responsible forbringing us Emily's letters and poems. In fact, Ward herself was inspiredto become a Dickinson scholar when she discovered sixty-five of Emily'sletters in her family's attic.

Cynthia Wolff, please spare us yourpolitically correct---but factually incorrect---views on EmilyDickinson.

Joe Psarto 27843 Detroit Road # 412 Westlake, Ohio 44145(440-835-5179)>jpsarto@juno.com< ... Read more


31. This Was a Poet: A Critical Biography of Emily Dickinson
by Emily Dickinson
 Hardcover: 337 Pages (1980-04)
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32. Emily Dickinson and Audience
 Hardcover: 288 Pages (1996-10-15)
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An obsessively private writer, Emily Dickinson almost never submitted poems for publication, which she deemed "the Auction / of the Mind." Yet over a century of criticism has established what readers of various sensibilities describe as a shockingly intimate relation between text and audience, making the question of whom the poems address a crucial element in interpreting them. This volume of essays is the first book exclusively focused on Dickinson's relation to audience--from the relatively few persons who received many of the poems to that vast, unseen, yet somehow specific other that any literary work addresses.

Dickinson's writings were influenced by her ambivalent attitude toward the conventions of the nineteenth-century literary marketplace and her desire to shape more intimate relations with chosen contemporaries. Still, her poems and letters engage modern readers and speak to the social and gendered politics of our own day. Thus this collection treats both the importance of Dickinson's personal friendships and the ways in which contemporary poetics continue to sustain the vitality of her writings. With contributions from Willis Buckingham, Karen Dandurand, Betsy Erkkila, Virginia Jackson, Charlotte Nekola, Martin Orzeck, David Porter, Robert Regan, Richard B. Sewall, Rob Smith, Stephanie A. Tingley, and Robert Weisbuch, the collection boasts a wide variety of critical approaches to the poet and her works--from traditional biographical and historical analyses to deconstructionist, feminist, and reader-response interpretations. It will interest not only scholars in these fields but also anyone who wants to gain insight into Dickinson's creative genius.

" . . . an enlivening intersection of Dickinson scholarship and contemporary theory."-- Joanne Feit Diehl, University of California, Davis

Martin Orzeck is Lecturer in English, University of Pennsylvania. Robert Weisbuch is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of English, Associate Vice-President for Research, and Associate Dean of the Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan.

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33. A Companion to Emily Dickinson (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
 Hardcover: 544 Pages (2008-03-03)
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This Companion to America&#8217;s greatest woman poet showcases the diversity and excellence that characterize the thriving field of Dickinson studies.


  • Covers biographical approaches of Dickinson, the historical, political and cultural contexts of her work, and its critical reception over the years
  • Considers issues relating to the different formats in which Dickinson&#8217;s lyrics have been published &#8211; manuscript, print, halftone and digital facsimile
  • Provides incisive interventions into current critical discussions, as well as opening up fresh areas of critical inquiry
  • Features new work being done in the critique of nineteenth-century American poetry generally, as well as new work being done in Dickinson studies
  • Designed to be used alongside the Dickinson Electronic Archives, an online resource developed over the past ten years
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34. Emily Dickinson:A Biography
by Connie Ann Kirk
Hardcover: 216 Pages (2004-05-30)
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Asin: 0313322066
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Emily Dickinson saw fewer than a dozen of her poems published in her lifetime, but she has since become one of the most revered and beloved of all American poets. As a shy woman living in 19th century New England, Dickinson wrote about large subjects through close observation of small, everyday details. After her death, her sister found more than 1,775 poems and solicited help in seeing them into print. Dickinson preferred to live most of her life at home among those she loved, but over time, some of the more unusual facts of her life became mythologized and distorted. Using updated scholarship and never before published primary research, this new biography peels away the myths surrounding Emily Dickinson and takes a fresh look at the complex and busy life of this genius of American letters. As a research tool, the volume is also useful for its explanation of current nomenclature for the poems, mysteries and controversies, and the poet's influence on American poetry and culture. A chronology is set alongside significant historical and cultural events of the period. Also included are locations of major holdings for Dickinson study, a listing of poems published in her lifetime, and a full bibliography of primary and secondary sources. ... Read more

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5-0 out of 5 stars You'll wish the book was longer

Kirk states that this is a book written for beginners, when it comes to Emily Dickinson. If you're a beginner, you couldn't ask for a better introduction. She helps the reader understand why a poem by Dickinson is printed in various ways using different words and punctuation. Kirk writes just enough about Dickinson's life to ruin your delight when reading pre-2005 biographies. I had no success reaching the website Kirk gives to find photographic copies of Dickinson's originals. But she's upped my interest and I'm still searching.

5-0 out of 5 stars The Definitive Young Adult Biography
This book is for young adults of the early 21st century what the National Book Award-winning Richard B. Sewall account was for adults 30 years ago--the definitive biography of the poet's life, including updated and new research that dispels many long-held Dickinson myths.Emily Dickinson sought advice on her writing and even collaborated with a close friend on at least one poem; she traveled; she had a circle of friends and family who meant a great deal to her and who received hundreds of letters from her; she loved her dog and hated housecleaning.She was not only aware of the Civil War during her most prolific years, but she also wrote poems about the war's soldiers and suffering.This is the living, breathing Emily Dickinson as a woman young people of today need to read about and think about in relation to her extraordinary poetry.Adults wishing to read a shorter account will also find much fresh and well-researched information here about a great American poet. ... Read more


35. An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia
Hardcover: 416 Pages (1998-04-30)
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Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) was a mystery in her own lifetime, and her poems continue to challenge their readers. For many, she remains a mythic recluse always dressed in white. Although factual knowledge has corrected that image, it was firmly established in Amherst long before the poet's death. Her works were largely neglected during her lifetime as most of her poems were published posthumously. Since Poems by Emily Dickinson appeared in 1890, readers have been raising questions about the poet, her world, and the works that have established her as a famous literary figure. An innovative writer who blurred the distinctions between poetry and prose, Dickinson is attracting a growing amount of scholarly attention. Critics have found her works elusive to interpret, and therefore, focus much research on her artistry and the practices of her editors. Now that Emily Dickinson's poetry has taken its place at the heart of the American literary canon, readers continue to examine the poet herself, the environment that sustained and challenged her, her artistic choices, and the implications of her poems. This encyclopedia features several hundred entries on persons, places, and institutions connected with Dickinson; cultural influences affecting her; stylistic aspects of her poetry; editorial and publication history; reception of her poems; critical approaches to her art; and modern responses to her in other art forms as well as thoughtful commentaries on a representative selection of poems. Recommendations for further reading follow each entry, and the book includes a general bibliography of cited Dickinson scholarship. The volume also features a chronology, appendices, and a guide to centers for archival research. ... Read more

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3-0 out of 5 stars Skimpy, squeaky-clean orthodox, and a big disappointment.
Considering its high price and the fact that it calls itself an 'Encyclopedia,' and considering the incredible importance ofEmily Dickinson's writings and the vast amount of research and criticism they have given rise to, one would have expected this book to have been a rather hefty and substantial volume.

One would have expected, for example, many interesting photographs, illustrations, useful tables, maps, genealogies, discussionsof _many_ of her important poems, detailed and classified bibliographies of early editions, modern editions, biographies, criticism, etc. And one would have expected much more.After all, this book is supposed to be an 'Encyclopedia.'

Unfortunately we get very little of the above.What we get is astandard 8vo-size volume (6.5 by 9.5 inches) of just 395 pages of bareand unadorned text.After a brief Preface, a Chronology, and a list of Abbreviations, 312 pages of articles follow.The articles varyfrom paragraph to essay-length, and the book is rounded out withtwo Appendices, an 18-page Bibliography (of which 16 pages are devotedto Critical Books, Articles, and Dissertations), an Index of Poems Cited, and a General Index.

Interestingly, in a book already top-heavy with biographical entries, and that might have included so much else - Ipersonally expected to find many more discussions of individual poems,for example - it concludes with 9 pages 'About theContributors' - their affiliations, major publications, and interests.

The articles are arranged alphabetically.Here is the entire crop for 'A' : "A narrow Fellow in the Grass" (P986); "After great pain a formal feeling comes -" (P341); Aldrich, Thomas Bailey; Ambiguity; American Dictionary of the English Language; Amherst; Amherst Academy; Amherst College; Anthon, Catherine (Scott) Turner (1831-1917); Aphorism;"Apparently with no surprise" (P1624); Asian Responses to Dickinson; The Atlantic Monthly, A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, andPolitics; Austin.

So much for the letter 'A.'To properly evaluate the scope of thisbook and the quality of its articles (some of which read quite well), one would of course have to be a Dickinson scholar, which I'm not.I do note, however, the absence under 'A' of anentry on 'Animals,' which in view of the many animals we find inDickinson's poems seems very strange.

I also note, on turning to the entry for 'Carlo,' Emily Dickinson's pet dog, the following statement: "He is the only animal in her entire corpus givenhuman emotion and intelligence" (p.41).This statement is utterly andcompletely false, and could easily be shown to be so, by, for example,an analysis of a poem such as "The waters chased him as he fled" (P1749).I've alsorun into other highly dubious statements in this book, particularlyones that seem determined at all costs to claim Dickinson for the Christian camp, whereas it seems perfectly evident to me that her mind was far too subtle to be contained by Christianity, or indeed by any official religion.

This book is very much a product of the official world of Dickinson scholarship.Its orientation is squeaky-clean orthodox, and it has either rejected or distorted much that isn't to its taste.It will prove a handy (though misleading) reference work for students, and the few ED cultists who stumble upon it will no doubt approve of it.

The book is bound in full cloth, stitched, and beautifully printed on excellent strong paper, but to me its contents came as a terrible disappointment.Gudrun Grabher's'The Emily Dickinson Handbook' (1998) turned out to be a far better book, a superb collection of articles from which I feel that I'm actually learning somethingabout Emily Dickinson.Some of its contributors are also found in the 'Encyclopedia,' but perhaps they weren't operating under quite the same constraints. ... Read more


36. Emily Dickinson and the Life of Language: A Study in Symbolic Poetics
by Emily Miller Budick
 Hardcover: 240 Pages (1986-01)
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37. Emily Dickinson's Letters to the World
Hardcover: 40 Pages (2002-03-19)
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Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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A captivating introduction to Emily Dickinson

The poet Emily Dickinson was unknown and mostly unpublished during her lifetime (1830&#8211;86). When she died, her sister, Lavinia, discovered the 1,775 poems Emily Dickinson left behind &#8211; her &#8220;letters to the world.&#8221; Jeanette Winter tells the story of the discovery of these poems and has selected twenty-one that speak most directly to children, surrounding them with vibrant paintings.

With a specifically designed typeface inspired by Emily Dickinson&#8217;s handwriting, this small book, which is about the size of some of the paper on which Emily wrote, is a gem.
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5-0 out of 5 stars Beautiful words and pictures
The pictures in this book are vivid and appealing, and the selection of poems is very well-done. The poems included in the book feature striking images and simple language that will appeal to children.
I agree with other reviewers that the "biography" portion is a little flat and doesn't give much information at all about the poet--but it's enough to whet the appetite of a young reader who may want to seek out more detailed sources to learn more about Emily Dickinson.
For a parent who wants to read some good poetry aloud with their child, this is just right.

3-0 out of 5 stars For whom is this intended and what is it's purpose?
While it is a nice premise - Emily's sister Lavinia discovers her sister's poems - the book falls a bit flat.The tone feels a bit condescending and dramatic in its attempt to engage young readers, and the narrative stops abruptly, launching into the poems with no commentary.The letters to the world theme is hammered into the reader's head, mentioned no less than five times if one includes the subtitle.
The poems are printed in a spidery script to distinguish them from the narrative.The font may be difficult for the beginning readers the book seems to be intended for.The selections are a diverse mix of her familiar and lessen known poems, including "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" and "There is no frigate like a book."
The illustrations are lovely, with a smooth solid folk art look to them. Emily appears in each drawing, making it clear that we are seeing the world through her eyes. Although each poem (and therefore illustration) is quite different, a common motif of scattered flowers, leaves and stars and graceful undulating arcs repeat in the forms of branches, waves and earth, tying the volume together. A short note at the end divulges additional biographical information.Sources are cited.
The small size, simple language and bright pictures make this a nice choice for young readers, but it is not as well done as The Mouse of Amherst by Elizabeth Spires (Francis Foster, 1999) or Emily Dickinson: Poetry for Young People by Emily Dickinson (Sterling, 1994).

2-0 out of 5 stars problems
It was a wonderful idea, but I was disappointed by the book.In my view the illustrations are stylized, sterile, and off-putting - you can see if you agree with me by enlarging the cover and taking a look at it - , the graphic design and color patterns produced visual clutter, and the poems are in not-easy-to-read stylized italics.But what prompted me to comment was the alteration of language of at least one, and I suspect more than one, of the poems. The eight-line poem I checked begins:"I'm nobody. Who are you?"In Ms. Winter's book line four of this poem substitutes "advertise" for "banish us," line six substitutes "frog" for "fog," and line seven substitutes "June" for "day."As you can see for yourself, these changes degrade the poem.I suppose this is considered legitimate bowdlerization, given theaudience.I don't agree.In any event the author and editors were remiss in failing to include a notice that at least one of the poems was altered.

4-0 out of 5 stars A Brief Introduction to Emily Dickinson.....
"My sister Emily was buried today..."So begins Jeanette Winter's very brief biography of poet, Emily Dickinson.Narrated by her sister, Lavinia, as she cleans out Emily's room, we learn just a few small facts about the elusive poet.She was a recluse who lived in the smallest upstairs room of the family's house.She loved words, studied the dictionary, and spent all her time writing on scraps of paper.She wore only white dresses, and most townfolk thought her strange.After her death, Lavinia finds drawers full of those scraps of paper, Emily's "letters to the world," and Ms Winter fills the rest of this small volume with a selection of 21 poems, some famous...There Is No Frigate Like A Book, I'm Nobody! Who Are You?, and If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking, and others less recognizable to complete her story.Her vibrant illustrations, done in an engaging folk art sytle, complement the text and enhances each poem beautifully.Though a bit light on biographical material, Emily Dickinson's Letters To The World is a simple and intriguing introduction to a remarkable poet that should open interesting discussions and whet the appetite of youngsters 7 and older, and send them out looking for more. ... Read more


38. Emily Dickinson (Bloom's Modern Critical Views)
Hardcover: 231 Pages (2007-12)
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39. The Gardens of Emily Dickinson
by Judith Farr
Hardcover: 368 Pages (2004-04-30)
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In this first substantial study of Emily Dickinson's devotion to flowers and gardening, Judith Farr seeks to join both poet and gardener in one creative personality. She casts new light on Dickinson's temperament, her aesthetic sensibility, and her vision of the relationship between art and nature, revealing that the successful gardener's intimate understanding of horticulture helped shape the poet's choice of metaphors for every experience: love and hate, wickedness and virtue, death and immortality.

Gardening, Farr demonstrates, was Dickinson's other vocation, more public than the making of poems but analogous and closely related to it. Over a third of Dickinson's poems and nearly half of her letters allude with passionate intensity to her favorite wildflowers, to traditional blooms like the daisy or gentian, and to the exotic gardenias and jasmines of her conservatory. Each flower was assigned specific connotations by the nineteenth century floral dictionaries she knew; thus, Dickinson's association of various flowers with friends, family, and lovers, like the tropes and scenarios presented in her poems, establishes her participation in the literary and painterly culture of her day. A chapter, "Gardening with Emily Dickinson" by Louise Carter, cites family letters and memoirs to conjecture the kinds of flowers contained in the poet's indoor and outdoor gardens. Carter hypothesizes Dickinson's methods of gardening, explaining how one might grow her flowers today.

Beautifully illustrated and written with verve, The Gardens of Emily Dickinson will provide pleasure and insight to a wide audience of scholars, admirers of Dickinson's poetry, and garden lovers everywhere.

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5-0 out of 5 stars "Beauty crowds me till I die"
Emily Dickinson continues to fascinate the literary world, not only because of her unique, eerily beautiful poetry, but also because of the delicious mystery that cocoons her life well over one hundred years after her death.Some have painted her as a looney eccentric, some as a recluse shrouded in sexual ecstasy: she has been seen on theatre stages throughout the world as the Belle of Amherst, and her works have been incorporated into songs and symphonies - the most poignant being John Adams' "Harmonium".

Yet few investigators have the quaint, informed pique as the highly admired Dickinson scholar, Judith Farr.This book THE GARDENS OF EMILY DICKINSON maintains the level of biographic study that began with her THE PASSION OF EMILY DICKINSON in 1994 and continued with the elegant, aptly eccentric epistolary novel I NEVER CAME TO YOU IN WHITE in 1996. Like the previous books, Farr does not confine her writing to academia (though she obviously has consumed every bit of available information on her subject and footnoted these books extensively): Farr prefers to open doors and windows of imagination to make the factual data supplied have a semblance to the radiance of Dickinson's gifts to posterity.

During Emily Dickinson's lifetime (1830 - 1886) the poet was better know for her commitment to the oh-so-proper Victorian art of gardening. Books on Botany from that period held dominion over reading tables and bookshelves and Dickinson was as astute a garden scholar as the best of them. Flowers are frequently referenced in her poetry, her letters, her life, and Farr has used this other half of Dickinson's life as a means to explore the meanings of her poems.'Flowers - Well - if anybody/Can extasy define -/Half a transport - half a trouble -/With which flowers humble men:...'She divides her writings into chapters 'Gardening in Eden' (the more spiritual aspect of the garden), 'The Woodland Garden' (the exploration of her natural garden on the grounds of the Homestead in Amherst, Massachusetts), 'The Enclosed Garden' (the conservatory where exotic looms were coddled), and 'The Garden in the Brain'.In each of these chapters Farr takes almost every reference to flowers in Dickinson's poems and discusses their significance both herbally and philosophically and passionately.The characters that played significant roles in Dickinson's odd life are all addressed (Susan Dickinson, Bowles, Higginson, etc) by referencing letters to and poems about each , and each bit of evidence breathes floral dimensions.Almost as an intermission to this theatrical diversion, Farr has placed a chapter by Louise Carter "Gardening with Emily Dickinson" which is well written and serves to ground the ongoing growing tales of the Belle of Amherst with a sophisticated diversion on the techniques of the Victorian Gardener - a chapter which could easily find its way into all Garden books!And aptly, in a manner that would no doubt find Dickinson's approval, Farr ends her book with an Epilogue, which indeed places all of her information in perspective and is enlightening to both the scholar and the occasional reader of the Poetry of Emily Dickinson.Judith Farr is a solid scholar, a fine writer, and if at times she cannot resist the tendency to 'personalize' her data, then that is merely her style and for this reader is only additive.The preface page of her book quotes the words of Thomas Wentworth Higginson: "There is no conceivable/beauty of blossom/so beautiful as words -/none so graceful,/none so perfumed."This lovely thought is a fitting introduction to the writing of Judith Farr, too. I wonder which aspect of Emily Dickinson she will explore next....

5-0 out of 5 stars Another Tour de Force from Judith Farr
Judith Farr is the preeminent Emily Dickson scholar alive today.This is a worthy companion to The Passion of Emily Dickson, also published by Harvard Press.If you are unfamiliar with Farr's work and love Emily Dickinson, you owe it to yourself to read both works.Farr's insights are bold, well-defended and entirely convincing.Her writing is crisp, direct and immensely readable. Also, this is without a doubt one of the most beautiful books I have ever seen in presentation.The color plates are worth the price of the book alone.Better than 5 stars. ... Read more


40. Emily Dickinson's Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing (Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism)
by Marta L. Werner
 Hardcover: 328 Pages (1996-02-15)
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Emily Dickinson's Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing is a fine facsimile edition and aesthetic exploration of a group of forty late drafts and fragments hitherto known as the "Lord letters." The drafts are presented in facsimile form on high-quality paper alongside typed transcriptions that reproduce as fully as possible the shock of script and startling array of visual details inscribed on the surfaces of the manuscripts.
Werner argues that a redefinition of the editorial enterprise is needed to approach the revelations of these writings-- the details that have been all but erased by editorial interventions and print conventions in the twentieth century. Paradoxically, "un-editing" them allows an exploration of the relationship between medium and messages. Werner's commentary forsakes the claims to comprehensiveness generally associated with scholarly narrative in favor of a series of speculative and fragmentary "close-ups"--a portrait in pieces. Finally, she proposes the acts of both reading and writing as visual poems.
A crucial reference for Dickinson scholars, this book is also of primary importance to textual scholars, editorial theorists, and students of gender and cultural studies interested in the production, dissemination, and interpretation of works by women writers.
This publication has been supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Marta L. Werner received her Ph.D. from the State University of New York-Buffalo. She is an independent scholar and a member of the Emily Dickinson Editing Collective.
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