Guide to Research

All available important information on Dickinson’s poems and Hans’s work on them is provided in the underlying Data Base:

• Poem numbers (Johnson and Franklin numbers)
• Fascicle number
• HWL packet (90’s, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J)
• Date (Year, Month, Day) when written by HWL
• First line
• Classification: H – hetero, L – lesbian content, M – masturbation, A – aberrant, S: secret language.

In the Poems section of the Archives, all 1173 poems analyzed by Hans are listed. Free access to the first twenty poems gives an idea of the range of analyses Hans provides for each poem. Clicking on the poem number or title will open Hans’s transcription of the poem, together with his analysis and commentary. Holding your mouse over the Johnson poem number in the Poems Section will show the corresponding Franklin number. Category location and list of symbols included in the poem are given at the end. All symbol terms are marked in red; holding your mouse over the symbol will show a brief definition; clicking will open the full preanalysis assumption with Hans’s initial interpretation and a list of other poems in which the same term appears. Under Research Options, you may also search for the poems that include specific items by selecting one or more options.