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Spring 1956 • Vol. XVIII No. 2 • Book Reviews |

Emily Dickinson’s Notation

The Poems of Emily Dickinson. Including variant readings critically compared with all known manuscripts. Edited by Thomas H. Johnson. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Three volumes. $25.00.

Emily Dickinson: An Interpretive Biography by Thomas H. Johnson. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. $4.50.

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Homo Ludens

By R. P. Blackmur

The Literary Works Of Matthew Prior. Two volumes. Edited by H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. £6. 6s.  Already have an account? Log in Join […]

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