A portrait of Emily Dickinson (1832-1886) through her poetry and other writings
Written and compiled by ANNE STEVENSON
Renunciation - is a piereinp: Virtue
The letting go
A presence for an Expectation Not now -
Emily Dickinson lived a quiet, almost hidden existence in Amherst, Massachusetts, all her life. Only five of her poems were published during her lifetime but after her death her work became popular with general readers who thought of her only as a pious nature poet with a bizarre gift for metaphor. Today however she is firmly fixed at the forefront of 19th-century American and European poetry. with the voices of GEOFFREY MATTHEWS , DON FELLOWS PHIL BROWN and HELEN HORTON Producer MAURICE LEITCH followed by an interlude