DALA: Digital American Literature Anthology
Edited by Michael O'Conner, Millikin University
Resources for Lecture Building and Extended Study - Copyrighted Materials
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Authoritative Online Versions of Dickinson Poems
A Narrow Fellow in
the Grass (Franklin 1096)
A Route of
Evanescence (Franklin 1489)
Because I Could Not
Stop for Death (Franklin 479)
"Faith" is a Fine
Invention (Franklin 202)
I Felt a Funeral in
my Brain (Franklin 340)
I Heard a Fly Buzz -
When I Died (Franklin 591)
Much Madness is
Divinest Sense (Franklin 620)
Success is Counted
Sweetest (Franklin 212)
Wild nights - Wild
Nights! (Franklin 269)
Dickinson Biography, American Passages
Dickinson Teaching Guide, Heath Anthology
Critical Perspectives on Three Dickinson Poems by Donna Campbell
Guidelines for Reading Dickinson's Poetry by Donna Campbell
Emily Dickinson Museum Manuscripts
Dickinson Criticism at Modern American Poetry
Publication History of the Works of Emily Dickinson
Commentary on Dickinson Poetry by David Preest
Wikipedia List/Archive of Dickinson Poems
Multimedia
Voices and Visions, Emily Dickinson
American Passages, Unit 6: Gothic Undercurrents
Electronic Resources in the Public Domain in the USA
Poorly edited versions of Dickinson's poems that are in the public domain are linked below, by Todd and Higginson, and by Martha Dickinson Biachi.
Poems by Emily Dickinson, The Three Series edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and T.W. Higginson, 1890s and 1901
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Martha Dickinson Biachi, 1924, includes The Single Hound from 1914
More authoritative versions of her poetry are under copyright and owned by Harvard University Press.
Whitman Teaching Guide, Heath Anthology
all U.S. Editions of Leaves of Grass (from Whitman Archives - distributed with a Creative Commons license)
Whitman Criticism at Modern American Poetry
1855 Leaves of Grass, at Virginia
Multimedia
American Passages, Unit 5: Masculine Heroes
Voices and Visions, Walt Whitman
Electronic Resources in the Public Domain in the USA
Project Gutenberg: Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (1891-92 edition)
Project Gutenberg: Poems by Walt Whitman, edited by William Michael Rossetti (1886 edition)