From: LouisFors@aol.com
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Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 17:43:08 EST
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Emily:

There are dozens of sites on the Web dealing with Dickinson.  One that could
yield a good deal of information for you is:

     www.colorado.edu/EDIS/

That is the Emily Dickinson International Society and, among other things they
publish the Emily Dickinson Journal, which comes out twice a year.  So click
the
mouse on the Journal part of the site.  The Journal contains scholarly
articles about
Dickinson.  They are lengthy (20 pages or so), and they cover various topics.
Some of the articles can't be retrieved online, but many can.  This is a
scholarly journal, so I suspect it can be trusted, although I'm a neophyte
with Dickinson
scholarship.

There's also another source:  www.salonmagazine.com.  This is an online
magazine publised by Borders Books and Music.  Late last year the poet Galway
Kinnell wrote a brief essay, "Reckless Genius," to initiate a "table talk"
discussion
about Dickinson.  The exact location of that little essays is:

      www.salonmagazine.com/features/1997/11/cov_03kinnell.html

Galway writes of some of Dickinson's poetic choices.  It's not a long piece,
but
it's interesting.  Then you can log onto the "table talk" section, where many
comments by others are archived.  When you log in to the "table talk" stuff,
you are asked to make up a login name and ID and you'll be in.  Keep track of
those items, however, since you might want to return for future "table talk"
events.

You say you are not particularly expert with the Web, so let me know if I can
aid
further.

Louis Forsdale