Who was Emily Dickinson? A new exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York takes a closer look at the iconic American cultural figure through her poems and the remnants of her life, and ...

Welcome to the Masters of Poetry book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors. Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on ...

American poet Emily Dickinson. A mystical recluse, she lived all her life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson was a 19th-century American poet whose name has become synonymous with classic ...

I was in the sixth grade the first time I ever read an Emily Dickinson poem, her lyrical letter to the Grim Reaper, "Because I could not stop for Death." She was one of the dozen writers we learned ...

It's now well-known that on May 15, 1886, when Emily Dickinson died and left behind a trove of magnificent, genre-altering poems, that she left little to no direction as to how they should be read or ...

“Did you ever / read one of /her poems back / ward” the fragmentary lyric reads, “because / the plunge from the front over / turned you?” Emily Dickinson’s words are scrawled on coarse brown, ...

The poems of Emily Dickinson began as marks made in ink or pencil on paper, usually the standard stationery that came into her family’s household. Most were composed in Dickinson’s large, airy bedroom ...

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 of ...

In 2012, a daguerreotype surfaced that was thought to be of a midlife Emily Dickinson, causing an Internet frenzy. As far as we (the frenzied) knew, there was only one known photographic image of the ...

The "Cruel Summer" Singer and the legendary poet are sixth cousins, three times removed according to Ancestry John Shearer/Getty Taylor Swift has a very famous poet in her bloodline. According to ...