Humor is not, perhaps, a characteristic associated with pure lyric poetry, and yet Emily Dickinson's transcendental humor is one of the deep sources of her supremacy. Both in thought and in ...

As in most lyric poetry, the speaker is often identified ... Dickinson’s home -- now the Emily Dickinson Museum - had a huge ...

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 ...

The company Ancestry, which helps people trace their genealogy, has found evidence that Swift is distantly related to the famed poet Emily Dickinson. “We need to calm down…but how can we when ...

In the previous post, we described a period of emotional turmoil, The Terror, that Dickinson experienced ... correspondence and some 1800 poems. Lavinia honored Emily’s wish to burn her letters ...

Dickinson two years later, at the age of fifty-five. At the poet’s funeral, her sister, Lavinia, laid two flowers by her hand, “to take to Judge Lord.” Three decades earlier, while Emily was ...

Taylor Swift is distantly related to the famed poet Emily Dickinson, pictured here around 1850. (Three Lions/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) The company Ancestry, which helps people trace their ...