This is the Franklin edition, which to me is more preferable to the Johnson edition because it is most faithful to the original erratic punctuation and capitalization in her bound manuscripts. The Johnson version that follows does not leave everything intact.

Dickinson's poetry was not just found in her poems, she was every inch the tragic poet in her letters too.

To Emily Dickinson, Susan Dickinson was her good friend, sister-in-law, and perhaps even something more- read these letters and judge for yourself.

Emily Dickinson used a lot of nature imagery in her poems.