Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries

“The best close reader of poems to be found on the literary pages.”
—Seamus Heaney

“[Vendler’s] succinct but astute readings of Emily Dickinson’s poetry are little kernels of insight into a wickedly keen poetic mind.”
—Hillary Kelly, New Republic

An interpretive introduction to Dickinson’s brilliant, enigmatic verse from the unrivaled doyenne of close reading.

Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the ...