by Emily Dickinson

Virtual Emily
This site is devoted to exploring the life and work of Emily Dickinson. As you browse the site, write a list of important or interesting facts about the author. When you read the poems in your textbook, refer to your list. Is your appreciation of Dickinson's poems enriched by knowing the facts regarding her life and times? In the Web Links Activity Log, give specific examples to explain why or why not.

Emily Dickinson (Un)discovered
Visit this site to find out more about the literary relationship between Dickinson and Thomas Higginson. Follow the link "Emily Dickinson's Letters" to read the article on Dickinson that Higginson wrote for the Atlantic Monthly in October of 1891, the same year her poems were posthumously published to great acclaim. Discuss what might have been her reaction to his words and to her sudden fame.