Fifty Poems of Emily Dickinson Author:Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson today is gaining her deserved place alongside Walt Whitman as one of the two greatest American poets of the nineteenth century. Beginning always with particulars of personal experience, her poems encompass life and death, love and longing, joyfulness and sorrow. With sparse, precise language, she conveys a penetrating vision of t... more »he natural world and an acute understanding of the most profound human truths.« less