Title: Decidedly unimpressive
Review: This is an inoffensive and easy enough to read biography - in fact I can't imagine it straining anyone's intelligence at all - but as a piece of scholarly research it's very third rate. The research methods are slapdash and often rather dodgy (at one point the author flatly states that a certain poem was sent to Samuel Bowles, merely because in the transcript made after Dickinson's death the poem was headed with his name, even though there's no such heading on the manuscript form written by Emily) - and the portrait drawn of the poet is rather pallid and ordinary. Sympathetic, but quite simplistic.
Is this product review negative?