Not long ago a distinguished critic, reviewing Father Tabb's poetry, remarked, 'At his most obvious affinity, Emily Dickinson, I can only glance. It seems to me that he contains in far finer form ...

The poet’s editor dreaded publishing it, he wrote, “lest the malignant read into it more than that virgin recluse ever dreamed of putting there.” Though Emily Dickinson is one of America’s ...

Yet, in some of the lyrical fragments that make up her poem, Emily Dickinson evoked Vesuvius as if she had it 'at home,' because she felt she was constantly living on the edge of the crater ...

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 ...