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Agrawal, Abha. Emily Dickinson, Search for Self. New Delhi, India: Young Asia Publications, 1977.

Alfrey, Shawn. The Sublime of Intense Sociability: Emily Dickinson, H.D., and Gertrude Stein. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell UP, 2000.

Allen, Rupert C. Solitary Prowess: The Transcendentalist Poetry of Emily Dickinson. 1st ed. San Francisco: Saru Press, 2005.

Anderson, Charles. Emily Dickinson's Poetry: Stairway of Surprise. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1960.

Arnold, Bill. Emily Dickinson's Secret Love: Mystery 'Master' behind Poems. Lake Worth, FL: PPB, 1998.

Barker, Wendy.  Lunacy of Light: Emily Dickinson and the Experience of Metaphor. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1987.

Barolini, Helen. Their Other Side: Six American Women and the Lure of Italy. New York, NY: Fordham UP, 2006.

Barnstone, Aliki. Changing Rapture: Emily Dickinson's Poetic Development. Hanover: UP of New England, 2006.

Barnstone, Aliki, Michael Tomasek Manson, and Carol J. Singley. The Calvinist Roots of the Modern Era. Hanover, NH: UP of New England, 1997.

Barolini, Helen. Their Other Side: Six American Women and the Lure of Italy. New York: Fordham UP, 2006.

Barrett, Faith. To Fight Aloud Is Very Brave: American Poetry And The Civil War. Amherst, MA: U of Massachusetts P, 2012.

Benét, Laura. Famous New England Authors. New York,: Dodd Mead, 1970

Benfey, Christopher. American Audacity: Literary Essays North And South. Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan P, 2008.

---. Emily Dickinson and the Problem of Others. Amherst, MA: U of Massachusetts P, 1984.

---. Emily Dickinson: Lives of a Poet. New York: Braziller, 1986.

---. A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade. 2008. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2014.

Bennett, Paula. Emily Dickinson: Woman Poet. Iowa City, IA: U of Iowa P, 1991.

---. My Life, a Loaded Gun: Female Creativity and Feminist Poetics. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1986.

Bianchi, Martha Dickinson. Emily Dickinson Face to Face: Unpublished Letters with Notes and Reminiscences. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1932.

Bingham, Millicent Todd. Emily Dickinson: A Revelation. New York, NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1954.

---. Ancestors' Brocades: The Literary Debut of Emily Dickinson. 1945. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1955.

Bobin, Christian. The Lady in White. Translated, Alison Anderson. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 2014. 

Brantley, Richard E. Emily Dickinson's Rich Conversation: Poetry, Philosophy, Science. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 

---. Experience and Faith: The Late-Romantic Imagination of Emily Dickinson. 2004. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Brose, Nancy Harris, Juliana McGovern Dupre, Wendy Tocher Kohler, and Jean McClure Mudge. Emily Dickinson: Profile of the Poet as Cook. Amherst, MA: Hamilton Newall, 1976.

Buckingham, Willis J. Emily Dickinson's Reception in the 1890's: A Documentary History. Pittsburgh and London: U of Pittsburgh P, 1989.

Budick, E. Miller. Emily Dickinson and the Life of Language: A Study in Symbolic Poetics. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State UP, 1985.

Burr, Zofia A. Of Women, Poetry, and Power: Strategies of Address in Dickinson, Miles, Brooks, Lorde, and Angelou. Chicago, IL: U of Illinois P, 2002.

Bushell, Sally. Text as Process: Creative Composition in Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Dickinson. Charlottesville, VA: U of Virginia P, 2009.

Cameron, Sharon. Choosing Not Choosing: Dickinson's Fascicles. Chicago & London: U of Chicago P, 1992.

---. Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre. Baltimore and London: John Hopkins UP, 1979.

Caldwell, Bonnie. Emily Dickinson: 190 Success Facts: Everything You Need to Know. Brisbane, AU: Emereo Pty Ltd, 2014.  

Callow, James T., and Robert James Reilly. Guide to American Literature from Emily Dickinson to the Present. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1977.

Cameron, Sharon. Lyric Time: Dickinson and the Limits of Genre. Baltimore: John Hopkins UP, 1979.

Capps, Jack L. Emily Dickinson's Reading, 1836-1886. Cambridge, MA: Harvard U Press, 1966.

Carton, Evan. The Rhetoric of American Romance: Dialectic and Identity in Emerson, Dickinson, Poe, and Hawthorne. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins UP, 1985.

Charyn, Jerome. A Loaded Gun : Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century. First edition. New York: Bellevue Literary Press, 2016

Chase, Richard. Emily Dickinson. American Men of Letters Series. New York, NY: William Sloan, 1951.

Cody, John. After Great Pain: The Inner Life of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP & Belknap Press, 1971.

Coghill, Sheila, Thom Tammaro, and Robert Bly. Visiting Emily. Iowa City, IA: U of Iowa P, 2000.

Conrad, Angela. The Wayward Nun of Amherst: Emily Dickinson and Medieval Mystical Women. New York: Garland, 2000.

Constantakis, Sara. Poetry for Students: Presenting Analysis, Context, and Criticism on Commonly Studied Poetry, vol 32. Detroit, MI: Gale, 2010. 

Crumbley, Paul. Inflections of the Pen: Dash and Voice in Emily Dickinson. Lexington, KY: UP of Kentucky, 1997.

---. Winds Of Will: Emily Dickinson and the Sovereignty of Democratic Thought. Tuscaloosa, AL: U of Alabama P, 2010.

Crumbley, Paul, and Eleanor E. Heginbotham. Dickinson's Fascicles: A Spectrum of Possibilities. Columbus, OH: Ohio State UP, 2014. 

D'Emilio, John, and Estelle B. Freedman. Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America. New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1988.

Delli-Carpini, John. Emily Dickinson's God: The Divine Image in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson. London, UK: Olympia Publishers, 2014.

Delli-Carpini, John and Robert F. Morneau. Poetry as Prayer: Emily Dickinson. Alexandria, VA: Pauline Books & Media, 2002.

Dickenson, Donna. Emily Dickinson. Leamington Spa, UK: Berg, 1985.

Dickie, Margaret. Lyric Contingencies: Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens. Philadelphia, PA: U of Pennsylvania P, 1991.

Diehl, Joanne Feit. Dickinson and the Romantic Imagination. 1981. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2014.

---. Women Poets and the American Sublime. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 1990.

Dillon, Elizabeth Maddock. The Gender of Freedom: Fictions of Liberalism and the Literary Public Sphere. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2004.

Dobson, Joanne. Dickinson and the Strategies of Reticence : The Woman Writer in Nineteenth-Century America. Bloomington and Indianapolis, IN: Indiana UP, 1989.

Donoghue, Denis. Emily Dickinson. Minneapolis, MN: The U of Minnesota P, 1966.

Doriani, Beth Maclay. Emily Dickinson, Daughter of Prophecy. Amherst, MA: U of Massachusetts P, 1996.

Eberwein, Jane Donahue. Dickinson: Strategies of Limitation. Amherst, MA: U of Massachusetts P, 1985.

Elliott, Emory. Puritan Influences in American Literature. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1979.

England, Martha Winburn and John Sparrow. Hymns Unbidden: Donne, Herbert, Blake, Emily Dickinson, and the Hymnographers. New York Public Library, 1966.

Erkkila, Betsy. The Wicked Sisters: Women Poets, Literary History, and Discord. New York, NY: Oxford UP, 1992.

Faderman, Lillian. Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love between Women from the Renaissance to the Present. New York, NY: William Morrow, 1981.

Farr, Judith. I Never Came to You in White. Boston, MA & New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.

---. The Passion of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1992.

Farr, Judith and Louise Carter. The Gardens of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2004.

Ferlazzo, Paul J. Emily Dickinson. Boston, MA: Twayne, 1976.

Finnerty, Páraic. Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare. Amherst, MA: U of Massachusetts P, 2006. 

Ford, Thomas W. Heaven Beguiles the Tired: Death in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson. Tuscaloosa, AL: U of Alabama P, 1966.

Franklin, R.W. The Editing of Emily Dickinson: A Reconsideration. Madison, WI: U of Wisconsin P, 1967.

Freedman, Linda. Emily Dickinson and The Religious Imagination. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 2011.

Fuss, Diana. “Dickinson’s Eye: Dickinson Homestead Amherst Massachusetts.” Chapter in The sense of an interior: Four writers and the rooms that shaped them. New York, NY: Routledge, 2004.

Galvin, Mary E. “Poltergeist of Form: Emily Dickinson and the Reappropriation of Language and Identity.” Chapter in Queer Poetics: Five Modernist Women Writers. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999.

Garbowsky, Maryanne M. The House Without the Door: A Study of Emily Dickinson and the Illness of Agoraphobia. Rutherford, NJ: Associated U Presses, 1989.

Gardner, Thomas. A Door Ajar: Contemporary Writers And Emily Dickinson. New York: Oxford UP, 2006.

Gelpi, Albert. Emily Dickinson: The Mind of the Poet. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1965.

Gerhardt, Christine. A Place for Humility: Whitman, Dickinson, and the Natural World. Iowa City, IA: U of Iowa, 2014. 

Gilbert, Sandra. Rereading Women: Thirty Years Of Exploring Our Literary Traditions. New York: Norton, 2011. 

Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar. “White: Emily Dickinson’s yarn of Pearl.” Chapter in The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 1979.

Gilpin, Clark. Religion Around Emily Dickinson. U Park, PA: Penn State UP, 2014.

Gordon, Lyndall. Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds. 2010. New York: Penguin Books, 2014. 

Greenberg, Robert M. Splintered Worlds: Fragmentation and the Ideal of Diversity in the Work of Emerson, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson. Boston: Northeastern UP, 1993.

Greiner, Donald J., and Pat Conroy. Classes on Modern Poets and the Art of Poetry. Columbia, SC: U of South Carolina P, 2004.

Griffith, Clark. The Long Shadow: Emily Dickinson's Tragic Poetry. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 1964.

Guthrie, James R. Emily Dickinson's Vision: Illness and Identity in Her Poetry. Gainesville, FL: UP of Florida, 1998.

Habegger, Alfred. My Wars Are Laid Away in Books: The Life of Emily Dickinson. New York: Random House, 2001.

Harris, Morag. Emily Dickinson in Time: Experience and its Analysis in Progressive Verbal Form. Perthshire: Clunie Press, 1999.

Higgins, David. Portrait of Emily Dickinson: The Poet and Her Prose. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1967.

Hogue, Cynthia. Women Writers and Poetic Identity: Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Bronte, and Emily Dickinson. 1980. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2014. 

Howe, Susan. My Emily Dickinson. 1985. New York: New Directions 2007.

Hughes, Glenn. “Emily Dickinson and the unknown God.” Chapter in A More Beautiful Question: The Spiritual in Poetry and Art. Columbia, MO: U of Missouri P, 2011. 

Jackson, Virginia. Dickinson's Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2005.  

Jenkins, MacGregor. Emily Dickinson, Friend, and Neighbor. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1930.

Johnson, Greg. Emily Dickinson: Perception and the Poet's Quest. U of Alabama P, 1985.

Johnson, Tamara. Readings on Emily Dickinson. Greenhaven Literary Companion to American Authors. Sand Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, 1997.

Johnson, Thomas H. Emily Dickinson: An Interpretive Biography. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, Belknap Press, 1955.

Juhasz, Suzanne. "The Undiscovered Continent": Emily Dickinson and the Space of the Mind. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 1983.

Juhasz, Suzanne, Cristanne Miller, and Martha Nell Smith. Comic Power in Emily Dickinson. Austin, TX: U of Texas P, 1993.

Keane, Patrick J. Emily Dickinson's Approving God: Divine Design and The Problem of Suffering. Columbia, MO: U of Missouri P, 2008. 

Kearns, Michael. Writing fort The Street, Writing in the Garret: Melville, Dickinson, and Private Publication. Columbus, OH: Ohio State UP, 2010.

Kirk, Connie Ann. Emily Dickinson: A Biography. 2001. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2004. 

Kohler, Michelle. Miles of Stare: Transcendentalism and the Problem of Literary Vision In Nineteenth-Century America. Tuscaloosa, AL: U of Alabama P, 2014. 

Langton, Jane. Emily Dickinson in Dead. New York, NY: St. Martin's, 1984.

Lease, Benjamin. Emily Dickinson's Readings of Men and Books: Sacred Sounding. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1990.

Lee, Maurice S. Uncertain Chances: Science, Skepticism, and Belief in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Oxford, UK: Oxford UP, 2012. 

Leiter, Sharon. Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work. New York: Facts on File, 2007.

Leyda, Jay. The Years and Hours of Emily Dickinson. 2 vols. New Haven: Yale UP, 1960. reprinted by Archon Books, 1970.

Liebling, Jerome. The Dickinsons of Amherst. U of New England P, 2001.

Lindberg-Seyersted, Brita. The Voice of the Poet: Aspects of Style in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1968.

Loeffelholz, Mary. Dickinson and the Boundaries of Feminist Theory. Urbana, IL: U of Illinois P, 1991.

---. The Value of Emily Dickinson. Cambirdge UP, 2016. 

Longsworth, Polly. Austin & Mabel: The Amherst Affair and Love Letters of Austin Dickinson and Mabel Loomis Todd. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1984.

---. Emily Dickinson: Her Letter to the World. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1965.

---. The World of Emily Dickinson. New York: W.W. Norton, 1990.

---. The World of Emily Dickinson. New York, NY: W.W. Norton, 1990.

Loving, Jerome. Emily Dickinson: The Poet on the Second Story. New York: Cambridge UP, 1986.

Lowenberg, Carlton, Territa A. Lowenberg and Carla L. Brown. Emily Dickinson's Textbooks. Lafayette, CA: C. Lowenberg, 1986.

Luce, William. The Belle of Amherst. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1976.

Lundin, Roger. Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief. 1998. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2004.

Mamunes, George. 'So Has a Daisy Vanished': Emily Dickinson and Tuberculosis. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. 

Martin, Wendy. An American Triptych: Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Adrienne Rich. Chapel Hill and London: U of North Carolina P, 1984.

McDowell, Marta. Emily Dickinson’s Gardens: A Celebration of a Poet and a Gardener. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2005.

McIntosh, James. Nimble Believing: Dickinson and the Unknown. Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan Press, 2000.

McNaughton, Ruth F. The Imagery of Emily Dickinson. Folcroft, PA: Folcroft Library Editions, 1973.

McNeil, Helen. Emily Dickinson. London, UK: Virago, 1986.

McTier, Rosemary Scanlon. 'An Insect View Of Its Plain': Insects, Nature and God in Thoreau, Dickinson and Muir. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013. 

Messmer, Marietta. A Vice for Voices: Reading Emily Dickinson's Correspondence. Amherst, MA: U of Massachusetts P, 2001.

Miller, Cristanne. Emily Dickinson: A Poet's Grammar. Cambridge and London: Harvard UP, 1987.

---. Reading in Time: Emily Dickinson in The Nineteenth Century. Amherst, MA: U of Massachusetts P, 2012. 

Miller, Ruth. The Poetry of Emily Dickinson. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP, 1968.

Mitchell, Domhnall. Emily Dickinson: Monarch of Perception. Amherst, MA: U of Massachusetts P, 2000.

---. Measures Of Possibility: Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts. Amherst, MA: U of Massachusetts P, 2005.

Moores, DJ. The Ecstatic Poetic Tradition: A Critical Study from the Ancients Through Rumi, Wordsworth, Whitman, Dickinson, Tagore. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2014. 

Morgan, Victoria. Emily Dickinson and Hymn Culture: Tradition and Experience. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2010.

Mossberg, Barbara Antonia Clarke. Emily Dickinson: When a Writer is a Daughter.  Bloomington, IA: Indiana UP, 1982.

Mudge, Jean McClure. Emily Dickinson and the Image of Home. Amherst, MA: U of Massachusetts P, 1975.

Oberhaus, Dorothy. Emily Dickinson's Fascicles: Method & Meaning. U Park, PA: Pennsylvania State UP, 1995.

Oliver, Virginia H. Apocalypse of Green: A Study of Emily Dickinson's Eschatology. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 1989.

Olney, James. The Language(s) of Poetry: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manley Hopkins. Athens, GA: U of Georgia P, 1993.

Ostriker, Alicia. Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1986.

Ottlinger, Claudia. The Death-Motif in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti. New York: Peter Lang, 1996.

Paglia, Camille. Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson. London and New Haven: Yale UP, 1990.

Patterson, Rebecca. Dickinson's Imagery. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1979.

---. The Riddle of Emily Dickinson. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1951.

Patterson, Rebecca and Margaret Freeman. Emily Dickinson's Imagery. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1979.

Peel, Robin. Emily Dickinson and the Hill of Science. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2010. 

Perriman, Wendy K. A Wounded Deer: The Effects of Incest on the Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars, 2006.

Petrino, Elizabeth A. Emily Dickinson and Her Contemporaries: Women's Verse in America, 1820-1885. Hanover, NH: UP of New England, 1998.

Phillips, Elizabeth. Emily Dickinson: Personae and Performance. U Park, PA: Pennsylvania State UP, 1996.

Pickard, John B. Emily Dickinson: An Introduction and Interpretation. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1967.

Pollak, Vivian. Dickinson: The Anxiety of Gender. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1984.

Pollitt, Josephine. Emily Dickinson: The Human Background of Her Poetry. New York, NY: Harper, 1930.

Porter, David T. The Art of Emily Dickinson's Early Poetry. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1966.

---. Dickinson: The Modern Idiom. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1981.

Power, Sister Mary James. In the Name of the Bee: The Significance of Emily Dickinson. New York, NY: Sheed & Ward, 1943.

Pritchard, William H. Talking Back to Emily Dickinson, and Other Essays. Amherst, MA: U of Massachusetts P, 1998.

Raskin, Jonah. “Coquette: Emily Dickinson.” Chapter in A Terrible Beauty: The Wilderness of American Literature. Berkeley, CA: Regent Press, 2014. 

Raymond, Claire. The Posthumous Voice In Women's Writing from Mary Shelley to Sylvia Plath. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006.

Richards, Eliza. Emily Dickinson in Context. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2013.

Robinson, John. Emily Dickinson: Looking to Canaan. Boston, MA: Faber and Faber, 1986.

Rupp, Richard H. Critics on Emily Dickinson. U of Miami P, 1972.

Salska, Agnieszka. Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson: Poetry of the Central Consciousness. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1985.

Sanchez-Eppler, Karen. Touching Liberty: Abolition, Feminism, and the Politics of the Body. Berkeley, CA: U of California P, 1997.

Sewall, Richard B. The Life of Emily Dickinson. 2 Volumes. New York: Farrar, Streaus and Giroux, 1974.

---. The Lyman Letters: New Light on Emily Dickinson and Her Family. Amherst, MA: U of Massachusetts Press, 1965.

Sherwood, William. Circumference and Circumstance: Stages in the Mind and Art of Emily Dickinson. New York, NY: Columbia UP, 1968.

Showalter, Elaine. The Vintage Book of American Women Writers. New York: Vintage, 2011. 

Shurr, William H. The Marriage of Emily Dickinson: A Study of the Fascicles. Lexington: U of Kentucky P, 1983.

Sielke, Sabine. Fashioning the Female Subject: The Intertextual Networking of Dickinson, Moore, and Rich. Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan P, 1997.

Small, Judy Jo. Positive as Sound: Emily Dickinson's Rhyme. Athens and London: U of Georgia P, 1990.

Smith, Jadwiga, and Anna Kapusta. Writing Life: Suffering As a Poetic Strategy of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge UP, 2014.

Smith, Martha Nell. Rowing in Eden: Rereading Emily Dickinson. Austin, TX: U of Texas P, 1992.

Smith, Martha Nell, Suzanne Juhasz and Cristanne Miller. Comic Power in Emily Dickinson. Austin, TX: U of Texas P, 1993.

Smith, Robert McClure. The Seductions of Emily Dickinson. Tuscaloosa: U of Texas P, 1992.

Snediker, Michael D. Queer Optimism: Lyric Personhood and Other Felicitous Persuasions. Minneapolis, MN: U of Minnesota P, 2008. 

Socarides, Alexandra. Dickinson Unbound: Paper, Process, Poetics. 2012. Oxford and New York: Oxford UP, 2014.

Sohn, Youngmi. The Challenge of Temporality: The Time Poems of Emily Dickinson. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2000.

Spengemann, William C. Three American Poets: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Herman Melville. Notre Dame, IN: U of Notre Dame P, 2010.

Sprague, Rosemary. Imaginary Gardens: A Study of Five American Poets. Philadelphia, PA: Chilton Book Co., 1969.

Stein, Rachel. Shifting the Ground: American Women Writer's Revision of Nature, Gender, and Race. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1997.

Stocks, Kenneth. Emily Dickinson and the Modern Consciousness: A Poet of Our Time. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1988.

St. Armand, Barton Levi. Emily Dickinson and Her Culture: The Soul's Society. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP, 1984.

Stonum, Gary Lee. The Dickinson Sublime. Madison and London: U of Wisconsin P, 1990.

Taggard, Genevieve. The Life and Mind of Emily Dickinson. New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1930.

Tanter, Marcy L. The Influence of Nineteenth-Century British Writers on Emily Dickinson: A Study of Her Library and Letters. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2014. 

Thackery, Donald E. Emily Dickinson's Approach to Poetry. Lincoln, NB: U of Nebraska P, 1954.

Thota, Anand Rao. Foreword by Satyanarain Singh. Emily Dickinson: The Metaphysical Tradition. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities, 1982.

Thurman, Judith. I Became Alone: Five Women Poets, Sappho, Louse Labe, Ann Bradstreet, Juana Ines De La Cruz, Emily Dickinson. New York, NY: Atheneum, 1975.

Tripp, Raymond P., Jr. Duty, Body, and World in the Works of Emily Dickinson: Reorganizing the Estimate. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Melon Press, 2000.

---. The Mysterious Kingdom of Emily Dickinson's Poetry. Denver, CO: Society for New Language Study, 1988.

Uno, Hiroko., and ひろ子 鵜野. Emily Dickinson's Marble Disc: A Poetics of Renunciation and Science.  Tokyo: Eihōsha, 2002.

Vendler, Helen. Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2004.

Verma, Anuradha. Alienation in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson. New Delhi, India: Shalabh Publishing House, 2014.

Wagner-Martin, Linda. Emily Dickinson: A Literary Life. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 

Walker, Cheryl. The Nightingale's Burden: Women Poets and American Culture Before 1900. Bloomington, IN: Indiana UP, 1982.

Walsh, John Evangelist. Emily Dickinson in Love: The Case for Otis Lord. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 2012. 

---. The Hidden Life of Emily Dickinson. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1971.

---. This Brief Tragedy: Unraveling the Todd-Dickinson Affair. New York: G. Weidenfeld, 1991.

Ward, Bruce. The Gift of Screws: The Poetic Strategies of Emily Dickinson. Troy, NY: Whitson Publishing, 1994.

Ward, Theodora Van Wagenen. The Capsule of the Mind: Chapters in the Life of Emily Dickinson. Cambridge, MA: BelkPress, 1961.

Wardrop, Daneen. Emily Dickinson and The Labor of Clothing. Durham, NH: U of New Hampshire P, 2009. 

---. Emily Dickinson's Gothic: Goblin with a Gauge. Iowa City, IA: U of Iowa P, 1996.

Watts, Emily Stipes. The Poetry of American Women from 1632 to 1945. Austin and London: U of Texas P, 1977.

Weisbuch, Robert. Emily Dickinson's Poetry. Chicago, IL: U of Chicago P, 1975.

Wells, Henry Willis. Introduction to Emily Dickinson. Chicago, IL: Hendricks House, 1947.

Werner, Marta. Emily Dickinson's Open Folios: Scenes of Reading, Surfaces of Writing. Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan P, 1995.

Whicher, George Frisbie. This Was a Poet: A Critical Biography of Emily Dickinson. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1957.

Wilson, Raymond Jackson. Figures of Speech: American Writers and the Literary Marketplace: From Benjamin Franklin to Emily Dickinson. New York: Knopf, 1989.

Wineapple, Brenda. White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2008.

Wolff, Cynthia Griffin. Emily Dickinson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986.

Wolosky, Shira. Emily Dickinson: A Voice of War. New Haven, CT: Yale U P, 1984.

---. Poetry and Public Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Worall, Simon (USA). The Poet and the Murderer: A True Story of Literary Crime and the Art of Forgery, New York: Dutton, 2002.

Wylder, Edith. The Last Face: Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts. Albuquerque, NM: U of New Mexico P, 1971.