The name was Emily Dickinson. Inclosed with the letter were four poems, two of which have been ... You said "Dark." I know the butterfly, and the lizard, and the orchis. Are not those your countrymen?
Passionate, astute, concentrated. The poems of Emily Dickinson (1830–86) have marked her out as one of the great American poets and she has been placed by the critic Harold Bloom as a key figure ...
Although Emily Dickinson is now considered one of America’s greatest poets, during her lifetime she was better known for her ...