Excellent lesson plan in which students study and analyze the letters that Emily Dickinson wrote to Thomas Higginson and to her sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson, as a method of understanding her poetry in a deeper sense....

This collection uses primary sources to explore the poetry of Emily Dickinson.

This is an e-text of the first published selection of the poems of Emily Dickinson (1830?1886) originally appeared in 1890, edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. The text contains 115 poems and can be searched by...

This webpage is a handout for a course on Emily Dickinson's poetry. It features information about Dickinson's life, her poems, her style, and her themes including: the inner world; death; pain, separation, and ecstasy; love; God and...

This site is actually the study guide for the Emily Dickinson section of a course titled "The Emergence of the Modern," taught at Brooklyn College. Though it is written for college students, it should be accessible to high school...

Video on the life and works of poet Emily Dickinson highlighting her literary contributions which often challenged many of the common beliefs among her peers. Click on "Emily Dickinson Activities" for related materials. Part of a...

This lesson from a unit on American Transcendentalism focuses on Emily Dickinson and her poetry. It includes links to a Discovery Education video: "Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886: An Overview of Her Work" (registration required) and four of...

Here are the full texts of three books of Emily Dickinson's poetry, edited and published posthumously by two of her friends, Mabel Loomis Todd and T. W. Higginson. (Only Ms. Todd edited the last book.) These texts include prefaces...

This is the complete text of the poetry collection Poems, Series 1 by Emily Dickinson. A Preface and Prelude are provided as well as the four sections of poetry: Life (26 poems), Love (28), Nature (31), and Time and Eternity (40).

This is the complete text of the poetry collection Poems, Series 2 by Emily Dickinson. A Preface and Prelude are provided as well as the four sections of poetry: Life (47 poems), Love (16), Nature (41), and Time and Eternity (42).

This is the complete text of the poetry collection Poems, Series 3 by Emily Dickinson. A Preface and Prelude are provided as well as the four sections of poetry: Life (45) poems), Love (22), Nature (29), and Time and Eternity (49).

This is Emily Dickinson's poem "Because I could not stop for Death" followed by an analysis of the poem.

This site features the author Emily Dickinson including a biography, the full text of three poetry collections: Poems, Series 1, Poems, Series 2, and Poems, Series 3, each set of poems is listed by topics.

This is a five-page PDF of poems by Emily Dickinson. It includes seven poems and a link to the audio of one of them.

This brief biography from Ibiblio.org provides details about the very private Emily Dickinson. Describes her efforts to publish her poem and how Dickinson's sister found more than 1,700 poems stuffed in a drawer after Emily's death.

As part of a unit on Emily Dickinson and her poetry, this classroom activity provides a brief classroom project and includes lesson plan ideas, web links, and additional texts.

Here is a brief biography of Emily Dickinson, as well as a link to the full texts of several poems and the dates they were written including: "Fame is a Fickle Food," "I Heard a Fly Buzz," and "The Soul Unto Itself."

For this lesson plan, learners will consider Lesson 2: Responding to Emily Dickinson: Poetic Analysis. Worksheets and other supporting materials can be found under the Resources tab.

Contains a great deal of information on Emily Dickinson (1830-1886 CE) including the following sections: Biography, Magazine/Journal Articles, Some Favorite Poems, and Emily Links. The journal articles include critical reviews of some of...

Web English Teacher provides links to information and resources on the 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson. Included are lesson plans, biographical information, critical analyses, and the texts of hundreds of Dickinson's poems....

A collection of critical reviews of 16 of Emily Dickinson's poems. Most poems are analyzed by multiple critics. In addition, there are two biographical sketches, and essays examining her use of the dash and her lack of titles.

This resource provides the text to more than one hundred poems by Emily Dickinson. It also includes an introduction with a little information about her poetry.

The Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts offers a companion website with a wealth of information on Dickinson's life, including an illustrated timeline and a variety of short essays about special topics related to Dickinson's...

This site provides an abstract and the text for an article which appeared in "Explicator." The article provides the text and a line-by-line analysis of the poem "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" by Emily Dickinson. Provides references...