Now here’s a happy-go-lucky Emily Dickinson we haven’t heard about from the history books: It’s early 1855 and she’s enjoying a three-week trip to Washington, D.C., where her father ...

Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief, by Roger Lundin, Eerdmans, 1998, 272 pp.; ... Today she ranks as America’s greatest poet and one of its most creative—though enigmatic—religious thinkers.

New York The myth of Emily Dickinson as the dark-haired, inveterate recluse who created her innovative poetry in isolation from the outside world is just that—a myth, according to this wonderful ...

The Homestead, where Dickinson lived for all but 15 years of her life, is now known as the Emily Dickinson Museum, 2008. Source: Image by Daderot on Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain She was born in ...

Emily Dickinson’s inmost mind would be revealed for all to see, ... but because each was bound on a religious-philosophic quest for ultimate certainty.

A few months ago, I began making my way through the complete set of Emily Dickinson's 1,789 poems. Right from the start, I was struck by how often commonplace plants and animals—robins ...

Emily Dickinson was born December 10, 1830; the coming anniversary will mark her 193rd birthday. Few 19 th century women have had her staying power. Little known during her life, she is regarded ...

Publisher Turtle Point Press has launched its new Divining Poets Quotable Deck Series with two poetry decks, out tomorrow, featuring the work of poets Emily Dickinson and Rumi.

They are religious, except me, and address an eclipse, every morning, whom they call their “Father.” But I fear my story fatigues you. I would like to learn.