Without elaborate philosophy, yet with irresistible ways of expression, Emily Dickinson's poems have true lyric appeal, because they make abstractions, such as love, hope, loneliness, death ...

The lines which form a prelude to the published volume of her poems are the ... my earliest letters from Emily Dickinson, in their order. From this time and up to her death (May 15, 1886) we ...

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

Forget those funny roses-are-red poems and start with one of the English language's literary giants. 2. "Because I Could Not ...

PBS, NPR and The London Review of Books all agree: “The Letters of Emily Dickinson ... also show a side of Dickinson that might not be familiar to even her most dedicated readers. Many people know her ...

The poems of Emily ... in her own way, Emily Dickinson could hardly have imagined the Minimalist sound-world of John Adams, which would arrive around 100 years after her death, even if Adams ...