CliffsNotes on Emily Dickinson's Poems

By: Mordecai Marcus

Enormously popular since the early piecemeal publication of her poems, Emily Dickinson has enjoyed an everincreasing

critical reputation, and she is now widely regarded as one of America's best poets. These Notes focus

on clarification of some eighty-five of her poems, chosen and emphasized largely according to the frequency of

their appearance in eight standard anthologies, where the average number of her poems is fifty. These poems

also seem to offer an excellent representation of her themes and power. In a final section to these Notes,

additional poems are commented on briefly.