W al t Whitman and Emily Dickinson invented an American poetry that owed little to the traditions that long bedeviled London. To read our poetry from Bradstreet, Taylor, Freneau, and Wheatley through ...

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 ...

Writing to Higginson, in a letter she drafts in 1870, Dickinson refers to “immortality” as “the larger Haunted House it seems, of maturer Childhood—distant, an alarm—entered intimate at ...

The Letters of Emily Dickinson collects 1,304 letters, starting with one she wrote at age 11. Her singular voice comes into its own in the letters of the 1860s, which often blur into poems.

From her father’s Christmas tree farm and mother’s days in Singapore to her connections with maternal grandmother, Opera star Marjorie Finlay and American poet Emily Dickinson, here’s everything ...

Swift and Dickinson are sixth cousins, three times removed, according to Ancestry.com. The "Cruel Summer" singer and the power both descend from a 17th-century English immigrant who was an early ...

Taylor Swift's way with words seems to run in the family after Ancestry, a genealogy company, revealed the famous songstress is the distant cousin of 19th century poet Emily Dickinson, adding her ...