Emily Dickinson is one of our most original ... Brilliant and beautiful transcripts of bird-life and of flower-life appear among her poems, although there is in some cases a childish fancifulness ...

The name was Emily Dickinson. Inclosed with the letter were four poems, two of which have been ... that I might pick a poisonous flower, or goblins kidnap me; but I went along and met no one ...

She had never seen Vesuvius; in fact, she had rarely left and never too far or for too long her room in the house with a ...