Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Individual Analyses -- Introduction -- I.1 "To pile like Thunder": Lexical Ambiguity -- I.2 "You said that I 'was Great'": Scales and Contextual Parameters -- I.3 "I'm Nobody!": Interpreting Quantifiers -- I.4 "This was a Poet": Identifying Referents - Definites and Demonstratives -- I.5 "If it had no pencil": Identifying Referents - Pronouns -- I.6 "My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun": Semantic Mismatches and Coercion -- Part II: Emily Dickinson: The Poet as Linguist, and the Linguist as Poet -- II.1 The Poet as Linguist -- II.2 The Linguist as Poet -- Part III: Benefits of Interdisciplinary Work -- III.1 Poetry as a Data Source for Formal Linguistics -- III.2 Formal Linguistics as a Tool in Literary Studies -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index