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In this study of the poetry of Emily Dickinson, David Porter returns to Dickinsons actual manuscripts and written words, finding there a poet less formal, more forthright, and more modern than most readers have recognized. Porter constructs a primer for reading Dickinsons more difficult poems. He discovers and details the hidden patterns of her composing methods her grammatical defect, her lost referents and dropped inflections, her unique habits of revision. By concentrating on the manuscripts themselves, Porter helps us penetrate the print she did not authorize with its straight lines and capitals, its even margin and spacing, its stanzaic regularity, its visual definiteness." Coupled with his close reading of the texts, Porters conceptual originality and warm sympathy open up whole vistas in Dickinsons poetry. He is keenly sensitive not only to what is present in her work but also to what is absent. Indeed, he argues, absence and omissions constitute Dickinsons deepest originality. By concentrating on the absence that exists at every level of her life and work, as well as on the sharp physicality of her manuscripts, Porter is able to illuminate many mysteries of Dickinson's career.

Dickinson, Emily --- Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth --- Criticism and interpretation --- Women and literature --- History --- Dickinson, Emily, --- Dickinson, Emilia, --- Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth, --- Dikinson, Ėmili, --- D̲ikinson, Emily, --- Ti-chin-sen, Ai-mi-li, --- דיקינסון, אמילי, --- Dykinsan, Ėmili, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Poets, American --- Women and literature --- History --- Literature --- American poets --- Dickinson, Emily, --- Dickinson, Emilia, --- Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth, --- Dickinson, Emily --- Dikinson, Ėmili, --- D̲ikinson, Emily, --- Ti-chin-sen, Ai-mi-li, --- דיקינסון, אמילי, --- Dykinsan, Ėmili,

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Alexandra Socarides takes readers on a journey through the actual steps and stages of Emily Dickinson's creative process. In chapters that balance attention to manuscripts, readings of poems, and a consideration of literary and material culture Socarides takes up each of the five stages of Dickinson's writing career.

Women and literature. --- Dickinson, Emily, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Dickinson, Emilia, --- Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth, --- Dickinson, Emily --- Dikinson, Ėmili, --- D̲ikinson, Emily, --- Ti-chin-sen, Ai-mi-li, --- דיקינסון, אמילי, --- Literature --- Dykinsan, Ėmili,

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Traces the roots of Dickinson's unusual, compressed, ungrammatical, and richly ambiguous style of poetry.

Women --- Language and languages --- Language --- Sex differences --- Dickinson, Emily, --- Dickinson, Emilia, --- Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth, --- Dickinson, Emily --- Dikinson, Ėmili, --- D̲ikinson, Emily, --- Ti-chin-sen, Ai-mi-li, --- דיקינסון, אמילי, --- Dykinsan, Ėmili, --- Language.

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From the award-winning author of Poe the Detective: The Curious Circumstances Behind "The Mystery of Marie Roget" comes a compelling argument for the identity of Emily Dickinson’s true love Proud of my broken heart Since thou didst break it, Proud of the pain I Did not feel till thee . . . Those words were written by Emily Dickinson to a married man. Who was he? For a century or more the identity of Emily Dickinson’s mysterious “Master” has been eagerly sought, especially since three letters from her to him were found and published in 1955. In Emily Dickinson in Love, John Evangelist Walsh provides the first book-length treatment of this fascinating subject, offering a solution based wholly on documented facts and the poet’s own writings. Crafting the affair as a love story of rare appeal, and writing with exquisite attention to detail, in Part I Walsh reveals and meticulously proves the Master to be Otis Lord, a friend of the poet’s father and a man of some reputation in law and politics. Part II portrays the full dimensions of their thirty-year romance, most of it clandestine, including a series of secret meetings in Boston. After uncovering and confirming the Master’s identity, Walsh fits that information into known events of Emily’s life to make sense of facts long known but little understood—Emily’s decision to dress always in white, for instance, or her extreme withdrawal from a normal existence when she had previously been an active, outgoing friend to many men and women. In a lengthy section of Notes and Sources, Walsh presents his proofs in abundant detail, demonstrating that the evidence favors one man so irresistibly that there is left no room for doubt. Each reader will decide if he has truly succeeded in making the case for Otis Lord.

Poets, American --- Dickinson, Emily, --- Lord, Otis P. --- Dickinson, Emily --- Dickinson, Emilia, --- Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth, --- Dikinson, Ėmili, --- D̲ikinson, Emily, --- Ti-chin-sen, Ai-mi-li, --- דיקינסון, אמילי, --- Dykinsan, Ėmili, --- Family. --- Relations with women. --- Relations with men.