Emily Dickinson wrote more than one thousand poems, several hundred of which remain of critical interest and debate. Harold Bloom suggests Dickinson presents the most authentic cognitive difficulties of 19th and 20th century poetry.
This title, Emily Dickinson, examines the major works of Emily Dickinson through full-length critical essays by expert literary critics. In addition, this title features a short biography on Emily Dickinson, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.