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Article: An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia.(Review) (book review)
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EBERWEIN, Jane Donahue. An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998. xiv, 416 pp. $85.00.
Readers of Emily Dickinson--both inside and outside the academy--will appreciate An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia, edited by Jane Donahue Eberwein. The volume contains "distilled nuggets" of factual information, thematic issues, exemplary discussions of the ten poems Dickinson published during her lifetime, and interpretive scholarship by approximately one hundred contributors. As Eberwein's preface notes, the encyclopedia can be usefully consulted for biographical details (to which of her many correspondents was she related, for example, or who might ...