Emily Dickinson's Birthday

Julie Harris takes viewers into Emily Dickinson's everyday world in a small New England town to compare and contrast facts about the poet with her extraordinary, original insights. Dickinson's reclusive life in her father's mansion on Main Street in Amherst, Massachusetts, meant that she wrote almost all of her surviving work in this house. From cellar to cupola, we invoke her "certain slant of light" (her real and imagined perspectives) Other locations...

"The Poetry of Emily Dickinson is a collection of pieces by 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson, who insisted that her life of isolation gave her an introspective and deep connection with the world. As a result, her work parallels her life - misunderstood in its time, but full of depth and imagination, and covering such universal themes as nature, art, friendship, love, society, mortality, and more. During Dickinson's lifetime only seven of...

A picture book "account of the life of Emily Dickinson: her courage, her faith, and her gift to the world. With Dickinson's own ... poetry woven throughout, this lyrical biography is not just a tale of prodigious talent, but also of the power we have to transform ourselves and to reach one another when we speak from the soul"--Publisher marketing.

A collection of 52 classic poems.

The story of poet Emily Dickinson, whose genius, wit, intellectual independence, and pathos only came to be recognized after her death.

When she moves into Emily Dickinson's bedroom, Emmaline the mouse discovers her own propensity for poetry.

This PBS production was filmed before a live audience in Los Angeles, which adds to the theatrical flavor of the performance. Harris is in her glory as Emily Dickinson and her performance celebrates Dickinson's life, spirit and poetry through subtle body movements, vocal inflections and facial expressions, all enabling Harris to resurrect the renowned 19th century poet.