Considering how many recent TV and film adaptations of her life there have been, you might think Emily Dickinson was one of the most famous poets of her time. Quite the contrary, though.

Few events in American literary history have been more curious than the sudden rise of Emily Dickinson into a posthumous fame only more accentuated by the utterly recluse character of her life and ...

A world without Emily Dickinson’s poetry is almost unimaginable, but it would have been the sad reality had her Irish maid ...

For someone who has had such a huge impact on American poetry, Emily Dickinson lived a very small life. She published only a handful of poems in her lifetime, and as she grew older became a ...