Passionate, astute, concentrated. The poems of Emily Dickinson (1830–86) have marked her out as one of the great American poets and she has been placed by the critic Harold Bloom as a key figure ...

Higginson may have been baffled by the idiosyncracies of Emily Dickinson's verse and personality, but twenty-two years after Dickinson's poems were first published, author and Wellesley professor ...

I will pay more attention to the glories of nature she could see from her perch: motes of “quiet dust,” frost, a bee at work ... or whatever it was. Emily would ‘talk poetry.’” That scene floors me.

American poet Emily Dickinson was born 193 years ago, and to celebrate the Deseret News has collected five of her poems to ...

Acclaimed American poet Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) was thought to be an eccentric recluse and spinster, and yet many of her posthumously published love poems, including “Wild Nights—Wild ...

I shall not live in Vain. You might assume from the title that this poem is about heartbreak, but that’s not the case. Like many of Emily Dickinson’s poems, “If I can stop one heart from ...

Approaching Emily Dickinson' provides an objective examination of that vast body of scholarship. It gives detailed attention to the principal trends in Dickinson scholarship during the past ...

Although Emily Dickinson's poetry wasn't appreciated until after her death in 1886, her baking skills were much appreciated during her life. She was an excellent baker, winning second place in a ...

Kathleen Langan 2014. All Things Dickinson: An Encyclopedia of Emily Dickinson’s World. Reference Reviews, Vol. 28, Issue. 8, p. 25.

From a previously unpublished letter in The Letters of Emily Dickinson, which is out next month from Harvard University Press. to unknown, late january 1878 Dear friend. We recollect you,… ...

People on Twitter are convinced that evermore was inspired by and dedicated to American poet and important literary figure Emily Dickinson. Upon listening to the album when it was released today ...

Learn about rhythm in poetry and how it can be used as device which has an effect on the reader. How to understand open and closed form in poetry Closed form poetry uses stricts patterns of rhymes ...