Dickinson, who lived from 1830 to 1886, is known for her poems such as “Because I could not stop for Death” and “‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers.” ...

Dickinson, who lived from 1830 to 1886, is known for her poems such as "Because I could not stop for Death" and "'Hope' is the thing with feathers." The writer was a celebrity in her time - and ...

In this poem, Dickinson writes about hope for the future. No matter how bad things may seem, there is always another day, another place, another sky. There is another sky, Ever serene and fair ...

Hope is the first word of three different poems by Emily Dickinson, the first of which famously continues, “is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul.” ...

Guest Julie Dobrow, author of "After Emily. Two Remarkable Women and the Legacy of America's Greatest Poet" and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Tufts University.

SMITH: This is poem 668 by Emily Dickinson. Nature is what we see - the hill, the afternoon, squirrel, eclipse, the bumblebee. Nay, nature is heaven. Nature is what we hear ...

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, and ...

Liane talks to Sheila Coghill and Thom Tammaro, editors of Visiting Emily: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Emily Dickinson. The profound and reclusive poet was born 170 years ago today in ...

THE verbal genius of Emily Dickinson was concerned with the single, word rather than the whole music. Her rhythms present small variety. On page 13 of the Further Poems, for instance, the rhythms ...