See this list to discover which of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published during her lifetime.
1890-1900
1890 Poems
Edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson.
Published by Roberts Brothers of Boston.
1891 Poems Second Series
Edited by T. W. Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd.
Published by Roberts Brothers of Boston.
1894 Letters of Emily Dickinson
Edited by Mabel Loomis Todd.
Published by Roberts Brothers of Boston.
1896 Poems Third Series
Edited by Mabel Loomis Todd.
Published by Roberts Brothers of Boston.
1900-1954
1914 The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime
Edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchi.
Published by Little, Brown and Company of Boston.
1924 The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson
By Martha Dickinson Bianchi.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company of Boston and New York.
1924 The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchi.
Published by Little, Brown and Company of Boston.
1929 Further Poems of Emily Dickinson
Edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchi & Alfred Leete Hampson.
Published by Little, Brown and Company of Boston.
1930 The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Centenary Edition
Edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson.
Published by Little, Brown and Company of Boston.
1931 Letters of Emily Dickinson New & enlarged edition.
Edited by Mabel Loomis Todd.
Published by Harper & Brothers Publishers of New York.
1934 Poems for Youth
Edited by Alfred Leete Hampson.
Published by Little, Brown and Company of Boston.
1935 Unpublished Poems of Emily Dickinson
Edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchi & Alfred Leete Hampson.
Published by Little, Brown and Company of Boston.
1945 Bolts of Melody: New Poems of Emily Dickinson
Edited by Mabel Loomis Todd & Millicent Todd Bingham.
Published by Harper and Brothers of New York.
1951 Emily Dickinson’s Letters to Dr. and Mrs. Josiah Gilbert Holland
Edited by Theodora van Wagenen Ward.
Published by Harvard University Press.
1955-
1955 The Poems of Emily Dickinson
Edited by Thomas H. Johnson.
Published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1958 The Letters of Emily Dickinson
Edited by Thomas H. Johnson with Theodora van Wagenen Ward
Published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1961 Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson’s Poems
Edited by Thomas H. Johnson.
Published by Little, Brown and Company of Boston.
1981 The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson
Edited by R.W. Franklin.
Published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1998 The Poems of Emily Dickinson
Edited by R.W. Franklin.
Published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1999 The Poems of Emily Dickinson: Reading Edition
Edited by R.W. Franklin.
Published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
2016 Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them.
Edited by Cristanne Miller
Published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press of Cambridge, Massachusetts
See Resources & Bibliography for more information about Emily Dickinson’s manuscripts and related resources as well as a discussion of copyright issues.