- Eberwein, Jane Donahue. "Dickinson, Emily" American National Biography Feb. 2000. College of Charleston Library. 16 March 2004. www.anb.org/articles/16/16-00453.html>.
- This article is a brief biography of Emily Dickinson. It skims her childhood and moves into more detail later in her life. This sources talks about Emily Dickinson's life as a young adult. It also mentions some of her acquaintances and who she dealt with only on occasions. The source also talks about how Dickinson almost never left the house. The author of this biography also takes a guess at where Dickinson got ideas for her poems and writes about how what was happening in her life influenced what she wrote about. The author mentions that Dickinson was always having people she loved die, which influenced her greatly while writing poems. This source also speaks of Dickinson's love interests and touches lightly on Emily Dickinson's supposed homosexuality. The author of the article also includes how Dickinson's poems have influenced many people and how she is one of the best known poets. The source also explains how Dickinson's poem came to be published after her death. The author also includes other people's views on Dickinson's poetry.
- Mullane, Jane, Robert Thomas Wilson. "Emily (Elizabeth) Dickinson."
Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism Vol. 21. Ed. Jane Mullen and
Robert Thomas Wilson. Gale Research Inc.: Detroit 1989. 1-2.
- This source provides a biographical background on Emily Dickinson. This source give a brief description of her childhood and early education. It also discusses how she lived her life. It talks about Dickinson being more reclusive as her life went on and her sending poems to Higgins to be critiqued. It explains that only seven of her poems were published in her lifetime. It also explains that the editors ruined her poems and it made her stop getting them published. It explains that after her death her sister found many of her poems. Also included is what many critics think of her poems.
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Donoghue, Denis. "Emily Dickinson". American Writers, Vol. 1 (1974): 451-473
- This article discusses Emily Dickinson's poems in which she expresses her personal feelings of love, pain, loss, doubt, and death. This article provides insight of how Dickinson's life was living poetry in its self and with ease she was able to express this in her writings. Therefore her poems may have been an instrument she used to break the silence.
- Budick, E. Miller. "When the Soul Selects: Emily Dickinson?s Attack on New England Symbolism." American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography (1979): 349-63. Ebsco Research Databases College of Charleston Lib., Charleston, SC. 20 March 2004. http://search.eptnet.com/direct.asp?an=0000100736&db=mzh
- This essay is basically studying the features of New England idealism and applying them to Dickinson?s attitude towards symbolism. The article points out that the poem "The Soul Selects her own Society" is a Puritan poem attacking Puritan-Transcendentalist snobbery. The essay talks about how Puritanism and Transcendentalism seemed antisocial and self-seeking to Dickinson, and how the poem revolves around death.
- Ransom, John Crowe. "Emily Dickinson: A Poet Restored." Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism Vol 77. Ed. Suzanne Dewsburry. Gale Group: Detroit, 1999. 47-53.
- This source contains a small amount of explication of "When the soul selects her own society." The author talks about the soul selecting her lover to be her society. Also mentioned is the happiness the soul has and also the soul being arrogant.
- Rubin, Larry. "Dickinson's The Soul Selects Her Own Society." Explicator, 30:8 30:8 (Apr. 1972).
- This author of this article talks about the tone of "The Soul Selects Her Own Society," provides a more traditional interpretation (based on love and connections with god) of it and describes the sounds of the words the poet uses to express a lonely feeling.
