Emily Dickinson, a Poet's Grammar

Emily Dickinson, a Poet's Grammar
Author: Cristanne Miller
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1987
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780674250369

Traces the roots of Dickinson's unusual, compressed, ungrammatical, and richly ambiguous style of poetry.

Open Me Carefully

Open Me Carefully
Author: Emily Dickinson
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1998-10-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 081950033X

The 19th–century American poet’s uncensored and breathtaking letters, poems, and letter-poems to her sister-in-law and childhood friend. For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson’s thirty-six year correspondence with her childhood friend, neighbor, and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson’s life and work, overcoming a century of censorship and misinterpretation. For the millions of readers who love Emily Dickinson’s poetry, Open Me Carefully brings new light to the meaning of the poet’s life and work. Gone is Emily as lonely spinster; here is Dickinson in her own words, passionate and fully alive. Praise for Open Me Carefully “With spare commentary, Smith . . . and Hart . . . let these letters speak for themselves. Most important, unlike previous editors who altered line breaks to fit their sense of what is poetry or prose, Hart and Smith offer faithful reproductions of the letters’ genre-defying form as the words unravel spectacularly down the original page.” —Renee Tursi, The New York Times Book Review

Maid as Muse

Maid as Muse
Author: Aife Murray
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2009
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781584656746

A startlingly original work establishing the impact of domestic servants on the life and writings of Emily Dickinson

I'm Nobody! Who Are You?

I'm Nobody! Who Are You?
Author: Emily Dickinson
Publisher: Scholastic
Total Pages: 105
Release: 2002
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780439295765

A collection of the author's greatest poetry--from the wistful to the unsettling, the wonders of nature to the foibles of human nature--is an ideal introduction for first-time readers. Original.

The Emily Dickinson Reader

The Emily Dickinson Reader
Author: Paul Legault
Publisher: McSweeneys Books
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2012
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9781936365982

Presents humorous retellings of each of Emily Dickinson's nearly eighteen hundred poems.

The Dead Guy Interviews

The Dead Guy Interviews
Author: Michael A. Stusser
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2007
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9780143112273

An ingenious assortment of "interviews" with some of the world's most famous--and late--personalities asks probing questions about their lives, anchievements, and more in dialogues with Alexander the Great, Emily Dickinson, Albert Einstein, Nostradamus, Thomas Jefferson, Caligula, Beethoven, Buddha, Edgar Allan Poe, Leonardo da Vinci, Joan of Arc, and many others. Original. 45,000 first printing.

Shakespeare and the Question of Theory

Shakespeare and the Question of Theory
Author: Geoffrey H. Hartman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 589
Release: 2004-06-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1134964420

The theoretical ferment which has affected literary studies over the last decade has called into question traditional ways of thinking about, classifying and interpreting texts. Shakespeare has been not just the focus of a variety of divergent critical movements within recent years, but also increasingly the locus of emerging debates within, and with, theory itself. This collection of essays, written by distinguished and powerful critics in the fields of literary theory and Shakespeare studies, is intended both for those interested in Shakespeare and for those interested more generally in the emerging debates within contemporary criticism and theory.

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Author: Emily Dickinson
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Total Pages: 784
Release: 1976-01-30
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780316184137

This comprehensive and authoritative collection of all 1,775 poems by Emily Dickinson is an essential volume for all lovers of American literature. Only eleven of Emily Dickinson's poems were published prior to her death in 1886; the startling originality of her work doomed it to obscurity in her lifetime. Early posthumous published collections -- some of them featuring liberally "edited" versions of the poems -- did not fully and accurately represent Dickinson's bold experiments in prosody, her tragic vision, and the range of her intellectual and emotional explorations. Not until the 1955 publication of The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, a three-volume critical edition compiled by Thomas H. Johnson, were readers able for the first time to assess, understand, and appreciate the whole of Dickinson's extraordinary poetic genius. This book, a distillation of the three-volume Complete Poems, brings together the original texts of all 1,775 poems that Emily Dickinson wrote. "With its chronological arrangement of the poems, this volume becomes more than just a collection; it is at the same time a poetic biography of the thoughts and feelings of a woman whose beauty was deep and lasting." --San Francisco Chronicle