Without elaborate philosophy, yet with irresistible ways of expression, Emily Dickinson's poems have true lyric appeal, because they make abstractions, such as love, hope, loneliness, death ...

Forget those funny roses-are-red poems and start with one of the English language's literary giants. 2. "Because I Could Not ...

The name was Emily Dickinson. Inclosed with the letter were four poems, two of which have been ... like to live till I had been a poet, but Death was much of mob as I could master, then.

The poems of Emily Dickinson (1830–86 ... it was only after her death – when her sister Lavinia found 40 hand-sewn manuscript books crammed with Emily’s writings – that her work reached ...