Few people have chosen to remain so isolated from the world and yet have communicated as much truth about it as Emily Dickinson. Dickinson's verse reached the public after her death, following the momentous discovery of nearly 900 of her poems in a locked chest. Covering a wide range of subjects, her creations are uniformly brief and intricately crafted, with vivid imagery and a revolutionary use of rhyme and meter. Emily Dickinson's artistry is so fiercely original that she is now considered as one of the founders of modern American poetry.

This is part of Chelsea House Publishers' American Women of Achievement series. This ebook contains the complete text from the original print version.