The name was Emily Dickinson. Inclosed with the letter were four poems, two of which have been ... lift that bears the ear upward with the bee it traces:-- The nearest dream recedes unrealized.

By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Emily Dickinson’s succinct poem “To make a prairie” begins with the line “To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee.” In a few words, the 19th-century poet pinpoints the ...

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 ...