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 ...

The name was Emily Dickinson. Inclosed with the letter were four poems, two of which have been ... and on her side a hope, always rather baffled, that I should afford some aid in solving her ...

Emily Dickinson is high on the list ... the bourgeois pleasantries in her mind, and later in a poem. I keep a complete copy of Dickinson’s poems on my prayer stand. I pick it up to read before ...

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 ...

At the ceremony, she read Emily Dickinson’s “Hope is the thing with feathers ... and even politicians — to read poems that showed how meaningful poetry has been in their lives.