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Susie, will you indeed come home next Saturday, and be my own again, and kiss me as you used to?… I hope for you so much, and feel so eager for you… feel that now I must have you… Why, Susie, it seems to me as if my absent Lover was coming home so soon — and my heart must be so busy, making ready for him.

Emily Dickinson’s electric love letters to Susan Gilbert.

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A vast, palpable presence seems overwhelming the world. The blue sky changes to gray or dull purple, speedily becoming more dusky, and a death-like trance seizes upon everything earthly.

Mabel Loomis Todd’s poetic and scientifically illuminating 19th-century guide to viewing a total solar eclipse.

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Emily Dickinson’s herbarium – a forgotten treasure at the intersection of science and poetry.

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Lisa Congdon hand-letters some of history’s most timeless wisdom on how to live.

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The inimitable Grant Snider strikes again, with the day jobs of famous poets – including Jack Kerouac (railroad worker), Charles Bukowski (mailman), Emily Dickinson (cat-keeper), and T. S. Eliot (bank clerk.)

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Amherst College digitizes scraps of paper on which Emily Dickinson scribbled her poetry.

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Emily Dickinson’s only surviving dress, photographed by Annie Leibovitz

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Lovely animated adaptation of Emily Dickinson’s poem “I Started Early – Took My Dog,” second only to Dickinson’s poetry set to song.

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“ Tell all the Truth but tell it slant –
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth’s superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind –
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Emily...

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant –
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth’s superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind –

Emily Dickinson, hand-lettered.

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Emily Dickinson’s poetry, in hand-lettered illustrations by artist David Clemesha

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Amherst College archivists uncover a new daguerreotype of Emily Dickinson, only the third known photograph of the celebrated writer in existence.

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There is no Frigate like a Book
To take us Lands away
Nor any coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry.

Emily Dickinson, quoted in Anna Quindlen's How Reading Changed My Life.