The Woman in White

This volume selects lyric poems by Emily Dickinson, written in nineteenth-century Amherst and arranged as a short reading sequence. The pieces use compressed lines, slant rhyme, and abrupt pauses to treat death, immortality, nature, the soul's privacy, and moments of extreme feeling. There is no narrative plot and no novelistic heroine; each poem is a brief independent utterance. The title points to the white dress associated with the poet rather than to a sensation intrigue. The book is a poetry selection, not the Wilkie Collins novel of the same name.

Quarter bound in dark green cloth, cream paper boards with a wood-engraved repeat pattern in green by Lydbury. Dark green endleaves. Transparent plastic dust-jacket, no slipcase.