The reclusive, yet free-wandering spirit of Emily Dickinson made her arguably, one of the most brilliant writers in American poetry. Her work still stands today as vivid and relevant as when originally written. She may not have personally experienced much of the world, but her mind traveled many miles and her heart knew much passion.

Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusettes on December 10, 1830. This fact is only one of the mere handful of certainties about the life of this reclusive poet, covered, as it was, in a "poetic veil." We know that, except for a few months of travel, she remained in Amherst until her death. And we know that Dickinson began, in her twenties, a gradual retreat into the confines of the homestead, the house in which she was born, until for the last fifteen years of her life she did not leave it's grounds and...