Emily Dickinson

"…[Emily Dickinson: Woman Poet] manages, with extraordinary finesse and intelligence, to rehumanize the poet. This Dickinson is presented in a clear, jargon-free critical narrative that is at once serious, witty, committed and down-to-earth. And it is indeed a superb surprise to see such an efficacious blend of intensive close readings with extensive historical contextualizations."—Barton L. St. Armand

"In de-pathologizing Emily Dickinson, Bennett helps to de-pathologize our current critical notions of past (and present) feminine creativity. This is a sane book about a saner poet than perhaps we knew we had; it will be as much a corrective as a catalyst to other scholars of feminine poetry. . ."—Anne Douglas

"…a revealing, rewarding, and immensely readable book. It enlivens the way we read Dickinson as distinctively and happily a woman poet."—Jane Donahue Eberwein