A Letter to the World Poems for Young Readers

Emily Dickinson was a very unusual woman. She spent most of her life in seclusion, seeing few people outside her own family, rarely going beyond the garden of her father's house except to take the secret path to her brother's house nearby. The only people with whom she apparently felt at ease were the children who came to play in that garden, to whom she sent gifts of gingerbread, lowered from her window in a basket. Yet when she dies, in 1886, she left behind her hundreds of poems which reveal an intensity of living that is rare.