Excerpt from Susan Howe’s My Emily Dickinson at the Poetry Foundation.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53265/from-my-emily-dickinson
Susan Howe's My Emily Dickinson is a landmark work of literary criticism. Howe is a scholar and an accomplished poet in her own right, and her book changed the landscape of Dickinson criticism.
Essay on and Selection from "The Gorgeous Nothings" at the Poetry Foundation
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/70065/studies-in-scale
The Gorgeous Nothings is a recent publication of Emily Dickinson’s “letter poems,” which contains reproductions of the often quite intricately (physically) constructed poems Dickinson wrote in and on the envelopes of her letters. Recent scholarship has emphasized the largely neglected significance of the material qualities of Dickinson's work.
Images of manuscript versions of "After great pain" at the Emily Dickinson Archive
https://www.edickinson.org/editions/2/image_sets/75039
The Emily Dickinson Archive is an open-access website for images of available original manuscripts of Emily Dickinson’s work, and provides useful context for the critical debate around the different editorial versions of her poetry.
Performance of an Opera-adaptation of "After great pain..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2GcHkLkcvA
This interpretation of Dickinson's poem as an opera provides an opportunity to attend to the sonic qualities of her poetry, and also draws out the density of meaning she's managed to achieve in just 13 short lines.
Review of two Dickinson biopics that present opposing views of the poet
https://hyperallergic.com/498381/emily-dickinson-biopics-quiet-passion-wild-nights/
Two recent 'biopics' of Dickinson provide an illustration of the ongoing debate surrounding the relationship of the poet's life to her work.
