Others may describe nature, but few can describe life ... yet with irresistible ways of expression, Emily Dickinson’s poems have true lyric appeal, because they make abstractions, such as ...

The poems of Emily Dickinson (1830–86 ... to Edward – an ambitious lawyer who later served a term in Congress – and Emily Dickinson. Nature and the sciences fired Emily’s imagination ...

The name was Emily Dickinson. Inclosed with the letter were four poems, two of which have been ... a rare and delicate sympathy with the life of nature:-- A bird came down the walk; He did not ...

New to Radio 4 Extra, Daljit Nagra selects the best programmes from the BBC's poetry archive. The house where poet Emily Dickinson lived in Amherst, Massachusetts, is now the Emily Dickinson Museum.