Description: An examination of the past half-century's critical reassessments of one of the most-studied American poets.
Brief description: Associate Professor of English, Santa Clara University.
Review Quotes: White's comprehensive and engaging book so effectively unites a balanced assessment of relevant scholarship with insight into prevailing trends that it is destined to become essential reading for both students coming to Dickinson for the first time and scholars long familiar with the field of Dickinson studies. White helps experienced scholars acknowledge those whose work has made their own thought possible at the same time that he provides those new to Dickinson with a lively sense of the expanding panorama of interpretive possibilities that continues to define the field of Dickinson scholarship.--Paul Crumbley, Utah State University, president of The Emily Dickinson International Society