Poetry Mondays: “I Died for Beauty”


Emily Dickinson, poet and recluse, dutiful daughter and profilic correspondent. Only ten of her more than 1,800 poems were published during her lifetime, and a complete, un-bowdlerized edition of her poems and letters wasn’t published until 1955, some 70 years after her death. She was as enigmatic as any person in American literature. Here’s a…