Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886) wrote some 1,800 poems, though only a handful were published during her lifetime. Here we’ll look at ten of her well-loved poems — though choosing is always tough. 

Dickinson remains something of a mystery, which fuels the continued fascination with her work and life. In The Penguin Companion to American Literature (1971), Eric Mottram offered this assessment of her poetic practices:

“She hoarded her poems, among them love poems, apparently addressed to Benjamin Newton, a student in her father’s office, with whom she corresponded until his death in 1853, and Charles Wadsworth, a distinguished married clergyman who may have left America because of her. Read More→