Emily Dickinson - (Wiley Blackwell Introductions to Literature) by Martha Nell Smith (Hardcover)

Emily Dickinson: A User's Guide is a comprehensive introduction to the life and works of America's most widely admired woman poet, written by a world-renowned Emily Dickinson scholar and American literary critic.

This book offers a richly appreciative biographical and critical introduction to Dickinson's work, interpreting her through the dynamic interchange between the reader's sense of her life and her writing.

With new biography and textual discoveries that have just come to light in 2011, this guide presents an inspired and invaluable introduction to the life and works of one of the greatest of all English-language poets.