An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia Book

Emily Dickinson's poetry has taken its place at the heart of the American literary canon, and readers now raise questions about 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 includes a chronology, appendices, and a guide to centers for archival research.Read More