The name was Emily Dickinson. Inclosed with the letter were four poems, two of which have been ... lift that bears the ear upward with the bee it traces:-- The nearest dream recedes unrealized.

Emily Dickinson is high on the list ... the bourgeois pleasantries in her mind, and later in a poem. I keep a complete copy of Dickinson’s poems on my prayer stand. I pick it up to read before ...

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 ...