Did Shakespeare get it wrong? Is life's basic question "to smile or not to smile," rather than "to be or not to be"?

Who Are You?" by Emily Dickinson I'm nobody! Who are you? As one of America's most well-regarded poets, Emily Dickinson has ...

We have yet had no genius in America, with tyrannous eye, which knew the value of our incomparable materials, and saw, in the ...

Three centuries later, an obscure poet in Amherst, Mass., would write similarly of dwelling “in Possibility.” Like Dyer’s, Emily Dickinson’s mind to her a kingdom was: an unbounded place ...

Emily Dickinson “I love you without knowing how ... Elizabeth Gilbert, “Eat, Pray, Love” “Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.” — Zelda Fitzgerald “Always, in all, in truth ...

Combining close readings of poems with contextualizing information about contemporary conflicts in intellectual history, the book contends that Dickinson takes the making of poems to be her ...

Emily Dickinson is widely regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry. But that wasn’t always the case. When her poems became public after her death in 1886, they drew ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login When Klaus Lubbers's meticulously detailed 'Emily Dickinson ... reassessing the poet's life and work. In the intervening forty years, ...

The Pennsylvanian supported early moves toward liberty by fellow colonials, but would not sign the Declaration of ...

What does poetry look like in the year 2023? Why do we write it? Who are we writing for? What is it ‘about’? This workshop will approach these questions by exploring Emily Dickinson’s idea of the ...

I don’t propose to offer a definition. I trust that each of us has a reasonably informed idea of what constitutes poetry, an idea which would include the writings of Emily Dickinson, John Donne, T. S.