Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Abbreviations ix
4. Introduction. Dickinson and the Demands of Intimacy 1
5. Chapter 1. Helen Hunt Jackson and Dickinson’s Personal Publics 22
6. Chapter 2. Mabel Loomis Todd and Dickinson’s Art of Sincerity 71
7. Chapter 3. ‘‘The Wholesomeness of the Life’’: Marianne Moore’s Unartificial Dickinson 118
8. Chapter 4. Moore, Plath, Hughes, and ‘‘The Literary Life’’ 153
9. Chapter 5. Plath’s Dickinson: On Not Stopping for Death 173
10. Chapter 6. Elizabeth Bishop and the U.S.A. Schools of Writing 211
11. Conclusion. Dickinson and the Demands of Difference 263
12. Notes 267
13. Works Cited 317
14. Index of Dickinson’s Poems and Letters 337
15. General Index 343
16. Acknowledgments 353