The name was Emily Dickinson. Inclosed with the letter were four poems, two of which have been ... The impression of a wholly new and original poetic genius was as distinct on my mind at the ...

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 ...

The verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to ... find in these pages a quality more suggestive of the poetry of William Blake than of anything to be elsewhere found,—flashes of wholly original ...

Although Emily Dickinson's poetry wasn't appreciated ... give Dickinson's gingerbread a try -- it tastes as good as her poetry sounds. Read the original article on Tasting Table.