Emily Dickinson appeared to be an ordinary woman of her time. In somewhat frail health, she lived and died quietly in the town of Amherst, Massachusetts, in the mid-1800s. She never married, and few people knew that she wrote poetry. Only a handful of her poems were published during her lifetime-- and not by her own doing. After Emily died, her sister found more than 1,700 poems written on scraps of paper, all wrapped up in little packets in Emily's...