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 ...

Published posthumously in 1890, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” is arguably one of Emily Dickinson’s most celebrated and most famous poems. In it, the speaker takes a carriage ride with ...

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 ...