Emily Dickinson, SOUTH WINDS JOSTLE THEM—, and Cashmere: Attempting Connection Through Nature

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Notes

1. The other poems are Franklin 111, 162, 176, 705, and 749.

2. Some critics who make use of Dickinson's relationship with nature include Barton Levi St. Armand in Emily Dickinson and Her Culture: The Souls Society and Jim Philip in “Valley News: Dickinson at Home and Beyond.” For an extensive list of writers interested in Dickinson's relationship to nature, see Christine Gerhardt's article, “‘Often seen-but seldom felt’: Emily Dickinson's Reluctant Ecology of Place.” For work on Dickinson and the sublime, see Gary Lee Stonum, The Dickinson Sublime.

3. For a discussion of this poem and critics who have written about this poem, see Gerhardt's aforementioned article.

4. For a catalogued list of the places mentioned in Dickinson's poetry, see “Emily Dickinson's Placenames” by Hallen and Nielson.

5. In 2013, The Emily Dickinson Journal ran a special issue on Dickinson and Asia, “Pearls in Eastern Waters: Emily Dickinson in Asia.” See this issue for more information on Dickinson and this region.