Leiter, Sharon. Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work.(Brief article)(Book review)

Leiter, Sharon. Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work. Facts On File. 2006. 450p. illus. photogs. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-8160-5448-7 [ISBN 978-0-8160-5448-0]. $67.50. REF

Leiter's (literature, Univ. of Virginia; Akhamatova's Petersburg) reference work on the much-beloved and much-studied poet Emily Dickinson (1830-86) is part of a 12-title, 14-volume set. It opens with a foreword by poet and Dickinson scholar Gregory Orr and includes an introduction; an approximately 20-page biography of Dickinson; explications of 150 of her best-known poems (e.g., "Because I Could Not Stop for Death"); an A-to-Z dictionary of relevant …