When Emily Dickinson died at 56 in 1886 ... s greatest poet and one of its most creative—though enigmatic—religious thinkers. So argues Roger Lundin in this powerful contribution to the ...

Even as a nine-year-old, the precocious Emily Dickinson had a special love of botany. To use a technical word like botany might seem a stretch when considering a mere child. But not for this ...

Often ranked in the upper echelon of American poets, Emily Dickinson is also one of the ... part of her work’s flow came out of her knowledge of religious psalms, though she was more than ...

These “Tortured Poets” are actually related. Taylor Swift is allegedly related to famed American poet Emily Dickinson, according to genealogy company Ancestry. The company claimed, per a new ...

Emily Dickinson was born December 10 ... Brought up during America’s Second Great Awakening, a time of enthusiastic religious revivals, she was alone among her family members and friends ...

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 ...

Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Emily Dickinson. The profound and reclusive poet was born 170 years ago today in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her work continues to inspire both readers and poets ...