Enormously popular since the early piecemeal publication of her poems, Emily Dickinson has enjoyed an everincreasing
critical reputation, and she is now widely regarded as one of America's best poets. These Notes focus
on clarification of some eighty-five of her poems, chosen and emphasized largely according to the frequency of
their appearance in eight standard anthologies, where the average number of her poems is fifty. These poems
also seem to offer an excellent representation of her themes and power. In a final section to these Notes,
additional poems are commented on briefly.