Emily Dickinson Reading List

 

 

First please read the Dickinson biography, pp. 68-70

 

 

Poem Number and Name                            Page Number

 

214   [I taste a liquor never brewed]                     72

324   [Some keep the Sabbath]                            77

328   [A Bird came down the walk]                      77

341    [After great pain]                                        78

401    [What Soft—Cherubic Creatures]               78

435    [Much Madness is divinest Sense]               79

441    [This is my letter to the World]                   79

465    [I heard a Fly buzz—when I died--              80

585    [I like to see it lap the Miles]                       84

640    [I cannot live with You]                              85

712    [Because I could not stop for Death--          87

754    [My life has stood—a Loaded Gun]            88

986    [A narrow Fellow]                                       89

1263  [There is no Frigate like a Book]                 92

1732  [My life closed twice]                                  95