Emily Dickinson was born December 10, 1830. Celebrate her birthday by baking "Black Cake" according to her very own recipe (courtesy of the Folger Shakespeare Library).
Naturally, you will find a world of information about Dickinson in the UMUC library, in a literature database such as MLA, our catalog of printed books, in a psychology database, and many other sources. You could spend a lifetime researching and appreciating this most brilliant and enigmatic of American poets.
Here is one of Dickinson's more famous poems (from poets.org):
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
(Image source: http://www.inamherst.com/2006/10/emily_dickinson_conference_inc.html)
Naturally, you will find a world of information about Dickinson in the UMUC library, in a literature database such as MLA, our catalog of printed books, in a psychology database, and many other sources. You could spend a lifetime researching and appreciating this most brilliant and enigmatic of American poets.
Here is one of Dickinson's more famous poems (from poets.org):
Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
(Image source: http://www.inamherst.com/2006/10/emily_dickinson_conference_inc.html)
