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Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)

recluse, woman poet, untitled poetry

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Criticism about Emily Dickinson

Transcendental Legacy -- Emily Dickinson

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/roots/legacy/dickinso...

Brief entry on Emily Dickinson and transcendentalism. Provides extensive listing of related web and print criticism resources.

Author: Grocholski, Krystyna

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Foregrounds and Apprenticeships: Dickinson and Whitman

http://www.classroomelectric.org/volume1/belasco/

"The purpose of this site is to introduce students to the literary environment in which Whitman and Dickinson learned to write and to help students investigate the important exchanges that Whitman had with Emerson and Dickinson had with Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911), a Unitarian minister turned influential journalist and abolitionist. The site includes: a chronology of the early lives of both poets, the exchange between Whitman and Emerson, the exchange between Dickinson and Higginson , suggested topics for investigations, a bibliography of print and electronic resources "

Contains: Sketch, Timeline, Commentary, Criticism, Bibliography, Webliography

Author: Susan Belasco

From: The Classroom Electric: Dickinson, Whitman, and American Culture

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Imprisonment and Captivity in Whitman and Dickinson During the Civil War . . . and After

http://www.classroomelectric.org/volume2/gruesz/index.htm

This site looks at the history of captive soldiers in the Civil War, and analyzes how they might have affected Whitman and Dickinson.

Contains: Commentary, Criticism, Bibliography, Webliography, Timeline

Author: Kirsten Silva Gruesz

From: The Classroom Electric: Dickinson, Whitman, and American Culture

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Love and Conquest: The Erotics of Colonial Discourse in Emily Dickinson's Poems and Letters

http://www.classroomelectric.org/volume1/browner2/

"Dickinson's use of foreign place names should encourage us to read her poems in a larger context." Site includes texts of her poems, historical context information, a bibliography, and suggestions for student projects.

Contains: Commentary, Criticism, Bibliography, Webliography

Author: Stephanie Browner

From: The Classroom Electric: Dickinson, Whitman, and American Culture

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Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and the Civil War

http://www.classroomelectric.org/volume2/folsom/

The site is divided into three sections, one which "explores Whitman's and Dickinson's literary responses to the Fugitive Slave Law", one which examines their use of images of an Ethiopian in their poems, and one which considers whether their war poetry was influenced by Mathew Brady's photographs.

Contains: Commentary, Criticism, Bibliography

Author: Ed Folsom

From: The Classroom Electric: Dickinson, Whitman, and American Culture

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Whitman, Dickinson, and the Elegy: Death and Dying During the Civil War

http://www.classroomelectric.org/volume2/belasco/

"This site offers an historical overview of the elegy as a poetic form from its early origins through the mid-nineteenth century ; a selection of the elegiac poetry and related prose of Whitman and Dickinson ; a selection of critical positions of literary scholars who have commented on Whitman's and Dickinson's use of the elegy ; suggested topics for investigations using the materials in the site and the Whitman and Dickinson archives ; a bibliography of print and electronic resources "

Contains: Commentary, Criticism, Bibliography, Webliography, Timeline

Author: Susan Belasco

From: The Classroom Electric: Dickinson, Whitman, and American Culture

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Biographical sites about Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson

http://wps.ablongman.com/long_kennedy_lfpd_9/0,9130,1490007-,00.html

This page from the companion web site to XJ Kennedy and Dana Gioia's "Introduction to Poetry" text includes a biography, critical overview, and bibliography of the poet.

Contains: Sketch, Bibliography, Commentary

Author: XJ Kennedy and Dana Gioia

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Emily Dickinson

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/155

Provides a brief biographical sketch of the poet, and the full text of several poems.

Contains: Sketch, Bibliography, Webliography, Pictures

Author: Academy of American Poets

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Virtual Emily

http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~emilypg/index1.html

"The following pages span the life and work of Emily Dickinson, a great American poet from the 19th century. Factual in nature, they provide some anecdotes as well as historical information which may be helpful when reading Dickinson's work."

Contains: Pictures, Commentary

Keywords: Emily Dickinson, anecdotes, historical information, photographs

 

 
Other sites about Emily Dickinson

The Emily Dickinson International Society

http://www.cwru.edu/affil/edis/edisindex.html

"The Society creates a forum for scholarship on Dickinson and her relation to the tradition of American poetry and women's literature."

Contains: Commentary, Pictures, Webliography

Keywords: Emily Dickinson International Society, forum

 

Emily Dickinson's Grave

http://www.findagrave.com/pictures/dickinson.html

This site shows a photograph of Emily Dickinson's grave at West Cemetery, MA.

Contains: Pictures

Keywords: Emily Dickinson, grave, headstone

 

The Poetry of Emily Dickinson read by Laura Lee Parrotti

http://www.tcom.ohiou.edu/books/poetry/laura_lee_parrotti.htm

Laura Lee Parrotti reads Emily Dickinson's Poems: Series 1. Each poem is available as a separate RealAudio file.

From: Wired for Books

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Portrait of Emily Dickinson

http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/images/authors/emily.jpg

This is a portrait of Emily Dickinson.

Contains: Pictures

Keywords: Emily Dickinson, portrait, picture