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Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson Cynthia Griffin Wolff Cynthia Griffin Wolff gives us a brilliant literary biography of Emily Dickinson that reveals the relationship between the poet's life and her poetry, between the life of her mind and the voice of he… OL149398W
The Cambridge Introduction to Emily  Dickinson The Cambridge Introduction to Emily Dickinson Wendy Martin 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… OL15178017W
The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson Wendy Martin Emily Dickinson, one of the most important American poets of the nineteenth century, remains an intriguing and fascinating writer. The Cambridge Companion to Emily Dickinson includes eleven new essay… OL15181339W
Lives like loaded guns Lives like loaded guns Lyndall Gordon Lyndall Gordon, an award-winning biographer, tells the riveting story of the Dickinsons, and reveals Emily as a very different woman from the pale, lovelorn recluse that exists in the popular imagina… OL15568619W
Envelope poems Envelope poems Emily Dickinson "The Envelope Poems is a small gift-book selection of Emily Dickinson's writings on envelope scraps. A full-color edition, The Envelope Poems presents a selection in facsimile publication of her cruc… OL20046288W
Emily Emily Michael Bedard When a mother and child pay a visit to their reclusive neighbor Emily, who stays in her house writing poems, there is an exchange of special gifts. OL2014472W
Dickinson in her own time Dickinson in her own time Jane Donahue Eberwein,Cristanne Miller,Stephanie Farrar "Even before the first books of her poems were published in the 1890s, friends, neighbors, and even apparently strangers knew Emily Dickinson was a writer of remarkable verses. Featuring both well-kn… OL22316012W
Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson Carol Dommermuth-Costa Examines the life, work, and significance of the visionary poet from Amherst, Massachusetts. OL2727921W
Emily Dickinson's approving God Emily Dickinson's approving God Patrick J. Keane "Focusing on Emily Dickinson's poem "Apparently with no surprise," Keane explores the poet's embattled relationship with the deity of her Calvinist tradition, reflecting on literature and religion, f… OL3455821W
Emily Dickinson, a poet's grammar Emily Dickinson, a poet's grammar Cristanne Miller Traces the roots of Dickinson's unusual, compressed, ungrammatical, and richly ambiguous style of poetry. OL3747700W
My wars are laid away in books My wars are laid away in books Alfred Habegger "Alfred Habegger presents the first thorough account of Dickinson's growth - a story of genius in the process of formation and then in the act of overwhelming production.". "Building on the work of … OL3953380W
Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson Mordecai Marcus The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background -- all to help you gain greater insight into great works … OL4478323W
Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson Amy Paulson Herstek A biography of the nineteenth-century American poet. OL5968781W