But Emily Dickinson’s poems are readable, and beautiful, and don’t leave you confused. So whether you want to get more cultured, or find a good poem to share with others, Emily has definitely ...

Not long ago a distinguished critic, reviewing Father Tabb's poetry, remarked, 'At his most obvious affinity, Emily Dickinson, I can only glance. It seems to me that he contains in far finer form ...

Explore a curated list of famous poems that everyone should read, featuring timeless classics and modern masterpieces that ...

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 ...

Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written ... Like many funeral poems that give comfort to the grieving, Emily Dickinson’s piece—and the final stanza, in particular—suggests ...

Unlike Emily Dickinson, who wrote as a confessional diarist and sent poems to her friends, Ives was adversely affected by his neglect: he had stopped composing by the early 1920s. He lived just long ...

Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin never met. But both were enchanted by the complexity of the natural world—and the ...

Out sprang poems, almost 1,800 of them. Given that Emily Dickinson had only published a handful of poems during her lifetime, this discovery was a shock. “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers/That ...

In a brilliant new book, “Natural Magic,” Renée Bergland brings Emily Dickinson and Charles ... “with the puzzling realization that many of Dickinson’s poems seemed profoundly Darwinian.” ...

The poems of Emily Dickinson (1830–86 ... ‘I didn't always understand her but I always felt Emily’s use of words mirrored the way a jazz musician uses notes.’ ...

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 ...