EMILY DICKINSON < Critical Assessments • Edited by Graham Clarke VOLUME II Early Responses; Poets on the Poetry; Early Reviews HELM INFORMATION Contents VOLUME II: Early Responses; Poets on the Poetry; Early Reviews Early Responses 6. THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON, 'Emily Dickinson's Letters', Atlantic Monthly, October 1891 3 7. MARTHA HALE SHACKFORD, 'The Poetry of Emily Dickinson', Atlantic Monthly, January 1913 21 8. MARTHA GILBERT DICKINSON BIANCHI, Editor's Preface to The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime, Boston, 1914 29 9. THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON, 'An Open Portfolio', Christian Union, 42, 25 September, 1890 35 10. THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON, Preface to Poems by Emily Dickinson, eds Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson, Boston, 1890 42 11. MABEL LOOMIS TODD, Preface to Poems: Second Series, Boston, 1891 44 12. THEODORA VAN WAGENEN WARD, ed., Emily Dickinson's Letters (to Dr and Mrs Josiah Gilbert Holland), Cambridge Mass., 1896 47 13. MARTHA DICKINSON BIANCHI and ALFRED LEETE HAMPSON, eds, Introduction to Further Poems of Emily Dickinsonuhondon, 1929 64 14. MABEL LOOMIS TODD and MILLICENT TODD BINGHAM, eds, from Bolts of Melody: New Poems by Emily- - Dickinson, London, 1945 • 74 15. MARTHA DICKINSON BIANCHI, Emily Dickinson Face to Face: Unpublished Letters With Notes and Reminiscences, New York, 1932 90 CONTENTS Poets on the Poetry 16. HART CRANE, 'To Emily Dickinson' N.Y., 1966 231 17. ALLEN TATE, 'New England Culture and Emily Dickinson', Symposium, 3, April 1932 232 18. YVOR WINTERS, 'To Emily Dickinson', The Collected Poems ofTvor Winters, Manchester, 1978 244 19. YVOR WINTERS, 'Emily Dickinson and the Limits of Judgment', Maule's Curse, Norfolk, Conn., 1938 245 20. ARCHIBALD MACLEISH, 'The Private World', Emily Dickinson: Three Views, Amherst, 1960 257 21. RICHARD WILBUR, 'Sumptuous Destitution', Emily Dickinson: Three Views, Amherst, 1960 269 22. LOUISE BOGAN, 'A Mystical Poet', Emily Dickinson: Three Views, Amherst, 1960 279 23. JOHN BERRYMAN, 'Your Birthday in Wisconsin You Are 140', London, 1972 286 24. JOHN CROWE RANSOM, 'Emily Dickinson: A Poet Restored', Perspectives USA, Spring 1956 287 25. EDMUND BLUNDEN, 'An Unguessed Poetry', Nation and Athenaeum, 46, 22 March, 1930 300 26. CONRAD AIKEN, 'Emily Dickinson', The Dial, 76, April 1924, rptd in A Reviewer's ABC, New York, 1935 303 27. JAMES REEVES, Introduction to Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson, New York & London, 1959 . 310 28. ADRIENNE RICH, 'Vesuvius at Home: The Power of Emily Dickinson', Parnassus: Poetry In Review, 5, Fall/Winter 1976 • ' 319 29. AMY LOWELL, 'Emily Dickinson', Poetry and Poets, Boston, 1930 339 30. ADRIENNE RICH, 'E', Emily Dickinson: The Mind of the Poet, ed. Albert Gelpi, Cambridge, Mass., 1965 350 31. J. V. CUNNINGHAM, 'A Poet of Spiritual Catastrophe', from 'Sorting Out: The Case of Dickinson', The Southern Review, n.s. 5, Spring 1969 351 32. TED HUGHES, A Choice of Emily Dickinson's Verse, London, 1968 . 355 Early Reviews 33. ARLO BATES, 'Miss Dickinson's Poems', Boston Courier, 23 November, 1890 363 34. ANONYMOUS, Review of Poems (1890), The Nation, 51, November 1890 368 CONTENTS 35. ANONYMOUS, Review of Poems (1890), The Critic, 17, 13 December, 1890 370 36. ANONYMOUS, 'The Newest Poet', London Daily News, 2 January, 1891 373 37. MAURICE THOMPSON, 'Miss Dickinson's Poems', America] 5, 8 January, 1891 376 38. WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, 'The Poems of Emily Dickinson', Harper's Magazine, 82, January 1891 381 39. ANDREW LANG, 'Some American Poets', The Illustrated London News, 98, 7 March, 1891 387 40. ANONYMOUS, 'Form and Substance', Scribner's Magazine, 9, March 1891 389 41. ANONYMOUS, 'A Poet', Saturday Review, 72, September 1891 391 42. ANONYMOUS, 'Second Series of the Poems by Emily Dickinson', Chicago Tribune, 12 December, 1891 394 43. ANONYMOUS, 'Recent Poetry: Emily Dickinson', The Critic, 16, 19 December, 1891 - 399 44. THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH, from 'In Re Emily Dickinson's Poems', Atlantic Monthly, 69, January 1892 401 45. FRANCIS H. STODDARD, 'Technique in Emily Dickinson's Poems', The Critic, 20, 9 January, 1894 403 46. MARY AUGUSTA JORDAN, 'Emily Dickinson's Letters', The Nation, 59, 13 December 1894 406 47. ANONYMOUS, 'Review of Letters', (1894), The Critic, 23, 16 February, 1895 410 48. LOUIS J. BLOCK, 'A New England Nun', The Dial, 18, 1 , March, 1895 413 49. BLISS CARMAN, 'A Note on Emily Dickinson', The Boston Evening Transcript, 21 November, 1896 416.