A selective bibliography of 28 active links for Emily Dickinson, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages
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Belasco, Susan and Kenneth Price Spiders, the Web, and Dickinson & Whitman. from The Classroom Electric, sponsored in part by U.S. Dept. of Education, 2001
Belasco, Susan. Foreground and Apprentices: Dickinson and Whitman, from The Classroom Electric, sponsored in part by U.S. Dept. of Education, 2001
Bray, Robert. "Why Thoughts Are Better Than Music, or Emily Dickinson's Fascicle 18 as a Lyric Sequence" Paper from an MLA presentation on Emily Dickinson in 1997
Browner, Stephanie. Love and Conquest: The Erotics of Colonial Discourse in Emily Dickinson's Poems and Letters" from The Classroom Electric, sponsored in part by U.S. Dept. of Education, 2001
Crumbley, Paul James. "Fascicle 1: The Gambler's Recollection" Paper from an MLA presentation on Emily Dickinson in 1997
Folsom, Ed and Kenneth Price. Dickinson, Slavery, and the San Domingo Movement from The Classroom Electric, sponsored in part by U.S. Dept. of Education, 2001
Freeman, Margaret H. An introduction to Emily Dickinson from the Literary Encyclopedia, 11 January 2005. On Letters (1842); Poems (1842)
Gilson, Annette. On the notion of circularity in John Ashbery and Emily Dickinson, From Twentieth Century Literature, 1998
GriffinWolff, Cynthia. A review of a 1987 biography of Emily Dickenson, Emily Dickinson National Review, July 17, 1987 reviewed by Thomas P. McDonnell
Heginbotham, Eleanor Elson. "Dickinson's Aesthetics and Fascicle 21" Paper from an MLA presentation on Emily Dickinson in 1997
Lundin, Roger. A review of Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief Reviewer David Yezzi notes, "given the housebound poet's hymnal meters, her biblical references, clipped Calvinist idiom, and enduring preoccupation with God, Jesus, suffering, death, and (her "Flood subject") immortality, the question persists: To what extent did Dickinson espouse the Congregationalist faith of her family and of her community?" Commonweal, Oct 9, 1998
Perloff, Marjorie. On the position of Emily Dickinson in the canon, from the point of view of the theorists. "How, then, to explain the neglect of Dickinson on the part of post-structuralist theory? My own hunch is that it has to do with certain assumptions about poetic language and poetic process–assumptions that differentiate Dickinson from the Modernists and their Romantic precursors whose work remains exemplary for theorists from Adorno and Jameson to Cixous and Kristeva."
Smith, Martha Nell and Lara Vetter. Emily Dickinson Writing a Poem from The Classroom Electric, sponsored in part by U.S. Dept. of Education
Snider, Clifton. "'A Druidic Difference': Emily Dickinson and Shamanism," poems discussed include "I reckon--when I count at all--" and "Much Madness is divinest Sense." Orig. in The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal 14 (1996): 33-64
Wardrop, Daneen Leigh. "'The Nameless Pod' and Other Miscarriages of Language in Dickinson's Fascicle 28" Paper from an MLA presentation on Emily Dickinson in 1997
Werner, Marta. "'The Soul's Distinct Connection': Emily Dickinson, Photography, and 19th-Century American Culture" from The Classroom Electric, sponsored in part by U.S. Dept. of Education, 2001
Werner, Marta. Writing Otherwise: Emily Dickinson and the Scenes/Surfaces of Writing" from The Classroom Electric, sponsored in part by U.S. Dept. of Education, 2001
The Emily Dickinson Journal provides full text of scholarly articles online to selected numbers of its journal from 1992-1996. Articles are not yet indexed here, researchers should peruse these journals (removed to password protected MUSE)
The Classroom Electric, 2001, sponsored in part by U.S. Dept. of Education. Additional articles on Emily Dickinson, which we have not yet fully indexed
Excerpts from reputable critical authorities on Emily Dickinson, with sections on Dickinson's Life; On 258 ("There's a certain Slant of light"); On 280 ("I felt a Funeral, in my Brain"); On 303 ("The Soul selects her own Society"); On 341 ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes--"); On 465 ("I heard a Fly buzz--when I died--"); On 508 ("I'm ceded--I've stopped being Theirs); On 520 ("I started Early--Took my Dog--"); An Essay by Russell Reising on "I started Early--Took my Dog--"; On 601 ("A still--Volcano--Life--"); On 613 ("They shut me up in Prose--"); On 657 ("I dwell in Possibility--"); On 712 ("Because I could not stop for Death"); On 754 ("My Life had Stood--a Loaded Gun--"); On 1072 ("Title divine--is mine!"); On 1129 ("Tell all the Truth but tell it slant--"); On 1705 ("Volcanoes be in Sicily"); About Dickinson's "Fascicles"; About Dickinson's Use of the Dash; "Why Dickinson Didn't Title." From Modern American Poetry at Univ. of Illinois
The Dickinson Electronic Archives. "Emily Dickinson Writing a Poem, "Dickinson, Cartoonist" "The Letter-Poem, a Dickinson Genre"; "Mutilations: What Has Been Erased, Inked Over, and Cut Away?"; "The Civil War, Class, & the Dickinsons: Emily Dickinson's Confederate Uncle"; "Virtual Landscapes: The Homestead, the Evergreens, and More"
Web site for a controversial PBS documentary on Emily Dickinson "The Loaded Gun"
Baym, Nina. Techniques and themes in Dickinson Lecture notes from professor Nina Baym.
A good collection of resources on Emily Dickinson from professor Donna Campbell
A brief biography of Emily Dickinson with links to some of her best known poems: Because I could not stop for Death (712); Fame is a fickle food (1659); I cannot live with You (No. 640); I felt a Funeral, in my Brain (280); I heard a Fly buzz (465); I measure every Grief I meet (561); I taste a liquor never brewed; I'm Nobody! Who are you? (260); The Soul unto itself (683); There's a certain Slant of light (258); To make a prairie (1755), from the Academy of American Poets.
On the relationship between Dickinson and Atlantic Monthly writer Charles Higginson
"How I Met and Dated Miss Emily Dickinson: An Adventure on eBay," by Philip F. Gura. About the discovery at an online auction of " what may be the second known photograph of Emily Dickinson." In Commonplace, vol. 4, no. 2, January 2004
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