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 ...

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 ...

Emily Dickinson is high on the list of people I ... I pick it up to read before I pray, not because she is particularly religious—she is more often irreligious and irreverent—but because ...

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 ...

Bringing long-dead, literary figures to life for contemporary audiences is a challenge, but that's the Emily Dickinson Museum's mission. Now the 19th-century poet's home in Amherst has reopened ...

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 ...

Emily Dickinson is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry. But that wasn’t always the case. When her poems became public after her death in 1886, they drew ...

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 ...