When Emily Dickinson wrote the poem “Hope is that thing like feathers” in 1861, she couldn’t have imagined a world like we ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and work of Emily Dickinson, the now-celebrated poet of Amherst, who was prolific ...

In 2012, a daguerreotype surfaced that was thought to be of a midlife Emily Dickinson, causing an Internet frenzy. As far as we (the frenzied) knew, there was only one known photographic image of the ...

A quote of the day is a daily highlighted line of wisdom chosen to inspire, teach, or encourage reflection on life's deeper ...

When I first encountered Emily Dickinson in high school, I was told what most people are told about her: She was an agoraphobic hermit who would hate her posthumous fame and voluminous publications. I ...

Emily Dickinson’s most enduring legacy may be a punctuation mark, one that continues to interrupt sentences, editors, and now ...

Many people are drawn to Emily Dickinson because of her mysterious life — the brilliant poet rarely left her family home in Amherst, Mass., and her work wasn't recognized until after her death. But ...

Inside the yellow brick house Emily Dickinson's grandfather built in Amherst, Mass., in 1813, you can see the very room and desk where the reclusive poet did her writing. The desk looks out onto the ...

The "Cruel Summer" Singer and the legendary poet are sixth cousins, three times removed according to Ancestry John Shearer/Getty Taylor Swift has a very famous poet in her bloodline. According to ...

FIRST THINGS FIRST: It’s a joke. If you don’t get that — that it’s a joke — then you are going to be enraged, or disgruntled, or just downright annoyed by The Emily Dickinson Reader. Take the Amazon ...