Emily Dickinson lived as a recluse in Amherst, Massachusetts, dedicating herself to writing a 'letter to the world' - the 1,775 poems left unpublished at her death in 1886. Today, Dickinson stands in the front rank of American poets.

This considered collection includes thiry-eight poems that were published between Dickinson's death and 1900. They express her concepts of life and death, of love and nature, and of what Henry James called 'the landscape of the soul.'