Emily Dickinson

EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)

Poems. Edited by Two of Her Friends, T.W. Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd. Second Series

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891.

Only eleven of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published prior to her death in 1886. Thomas W. Higginson (1823-1911) and Mabel Todd (1856-1932) were her earliest editors, producing a series of selected poems.

EMILY DICKINSON (1830-1886)

Complete poems

Boston: Little, Brown, 1960

Edited by Thomas H. Johnson. Not until the 1955 publication of The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, a three-volume critical edition compiled by Thomas H. Johnson, were readers able for the first time to assess, understand, and appreciate the whole of Dickinson’s extraordinary poetic genius. This book, a distillation of the three-volume Complete Poems, brings together the original texts of all 1,775 poems that Emily Dickinson wrote.

Part of the John M. Lewis collection. Gift, 2022

THOMAS HERBERT JOHNSON

Emily Dickinson: an interpretive biography

Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1955

RICHARD B. SEWALL (1908-2003)

The life of Emily Dickinson

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1974

Part of the John M. Lewis collection. Gift, 2022