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American
Literature Sites
Selected
Secondary Bibliography
Common
Questions on Emily Dickinson (class notes)
Guidelines
for reading Dickinson's poetry
- Biography
and selected poems from the American Academy of Poets.
- Emily
Dickinson Journal
- Emily
Dickinson Bulletin
- Virtual
Emily.This site at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst includes
biographical information and pictures of family members and important
places in Dickinson's life.
- Emily Dickinson Homestead
- Emily Dickinson
International Society Home Page
- Dickinson Electronic
Archives Descriptions and selected
materials from this excellent and important project are available,
although some portions are limited to subscribers. Sections include
the "Emily
Dickinson Writing a Poem" site, essays
on Whitman and Dickinson, and facsimile reproductions of their
manuscripts.
- Emily
Dickinson Page at the Mining Company. Contains a biographical sketch
and information by Jone Johnson Lewis, pictures of Dickinson and Thomas
Wentworth Higginson, and many links to Dickinson resources.
- Site
for Loaded Gun, a controversial new PBS documentary on Emily
Dickinson. From the PBS site: "LOADED GUN dissects the meaning
of its puzzling title poem, speculates about Dickinson's possible
love affairs and recasts the poet in an array of contradictory personas:
Emily as sexualized seductress, anxiety-ridden basket case, sarcastic
comedian, reluctant interview subject, childlike genius, tormented
spinster - even a talented second baseman."
- Foregrounds
and Apprenticeships. This site focuses on Emily Dickinson
and Walt Whitman, including Dickinson's relationship with Thomas Wentworth
Higginson and Whitman's with Emerson. It contains a timeline, excerpts
from letters and criticism, and a bibliography.
- New Photograph
of Emily Dickinson. Professor Philip Gura of the University of North
Carolina has discovered a previously unknown photograph of Emily Dickinson.(new
URL) You can read the story
of Professor Gura's acquisition of the photograph at the online
journal Common-place.
- Outlines from Nina Baym's lectures on Dickinson's
themes and techniques.

- An interview with Alfred Habegger, author of My Wars are Laid
Away in Booksis online at NPR's Morning Edition at http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20011127.me.15.ram See
also Maureen Corrigan's review from the same site at http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/me/20011127.me.15.ram,
or an interview
with Diane Rehm (29 January 2002).
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