Emily Dickinson

by Donna Dickenson, Bruce Dickinson

Book by Dickenson, Donna

Genres: Poetry

132 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1985

Reviews

[Rena Sherwood · Rating 2 out of 5]

About the only thing you'll learn from this book about Emily Dickenson is that there is almost nothing known about Emily Dickenson. This is a literary criticism book more than a biography. It's very short and yet drags along like a dying horse at times.

[Jil · Rating 1 out of 5]

'she turned inward [...] partly through lack of anything else to do' - sure she was just bored and the result of that were over 1800 poems
'in the end dickinson was both a deliberate impersonation of a lunatic and a genuine madwoman' THE audacity of that comment................

[Kathleen · Rating 3 out of 5]

I misread the author if this one and thought it was a collection of Dickinson poems. Instead it was literary criticism by Dickenson on Dickinson. I read it anyway. I good quick read and I learned a bit about the poet.

[Molly Mccombs · Rating 3 out of 5]

Four stars in 1985, 3 stars in 2022 because so much more has been unearthed about Emily Dickinson’s life since then.