By force of her imagination and skill, Emily Dickinson could take the measure of solitude, opprobrium and even damnation.

Not long ago a distinguished critic, reviewing Father Tabb's poetry, remarked, 'At his most obvious affinity, Emily Dickinson, I can only glance. It seems to me that he contains in far finer form ...

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 ...

Higginson may have been baffled by the idiosyncracies of Emily Dickinson's verse and personality, but twenty-two years after Dickinson's poems were first published, author and Wellesley professor ...

The house where poet Emily Dickinson lived in Amherst, Massachusetts, is now the Emily Dickinson Museum. The museum has restored her bedroom, where she wrote most of her poetry, and they offer ...

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts may have a better right than any other state to call itself “the poetry state.” Celebrated poets from Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Elizabeth Bishop and ...

Invoking Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Sam Cornish and Robert Frost, Gov. Maura Healey on Monday signed an executive order creating a position of poet laureate in ...