Emily Dickinson famously wrote “tell all the truth but tell it slant.” A characteristically enigmatic phrase, it’s both striking and open to multiple interpretations. Still, it might suggest that ...

American poet Emily Dickinson. A mystical recluse, she lived all her life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily Dickinson was a 19th-century American poet whose name has become synonymous with classic ...

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 ...

This essay is part a series by Father Stayer, a professor of English at Loyola University Chicago, reflecting on essential works of writing, art and music. In his weekly interview with writers, Scott ...

Emily Dickinson's profound wisdom, particularly her quote on life's sweetness stemming from its impermanence, continues to ...

One day late in 1881, the young wife of a recently hired instructor at Amherst College wrote to her parents in Washington about her impressions of her new hometown. Among other things, she told them ...

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 ...