PBS, NPR and The London Review of Books all agree: “The Letters of Emily Dickinson,” co-edited by Cristanne Miller, SUNY Distinguished Professor of English emerita, is among the best books of 2024. In ...

IT is full time that the American public had its attention sharply recalled to one of the most original poets and especially one of the subtlest, most suggestive, most startling letter-writers that ...

"This is my letter to the world": Emily Dickinson's epistolary poetics / Cindy Mackenzie -- Dickinson's correspondence and the politics of gift-based circulation / Paul Crumbley -- "Blossom[s] of the ...

‘WOULD you rather I wrote you what I am doing here or who I am loving there ? ’ asked Emily Dickinson in a letter from Washington, where, as a girl, she went with her father during his Congressional ...

AMHERST, Mass. -- For years, the house where Emily Dickinson lived was used as faculty housing by Amherst College. But fans of the famed reclusive poet, intent on making a literary pilgrimage to the ...

To write about Emily Dickinson is a very different experience than chronicling the lives of Herman Melville and Charles Darwin who appeared in earlier posts. Her life had little of the exterior action ...

In the previous post, we described a period of emotional turmoil, The Terror, that Dickinson experienced in 1861, followed by a resilient period of renewed energy. By 1866, however, her writing ...

What, oh what, will save our boys from toxic masculinity? A President Chris Evans? Truer hugs? A few years ago, as a freshly minted English professor, I thought I’d found the solution: Emily Dickinson ...

Since, as Ian Frazier points out in By the Book (Nov. 28), it only has 27 words, it’s disappointing that the Book Review didn’t find room to print Emily Dickinson’s “To Make a Prairie.” One of those ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – PBS, NPR and The London Review of Books all agree: “The Letters of Emily Dickinson,” co-edited by Cristanne Miller, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Professor of English emerita in the ...