The Emily sonnets : the life of Emily Dickinson in verse
(Book)

"Only a few people, mostly family and friends, ever read a poem by Emily Dickinson before she died in 1886, but today she in one of the most famous of American poets. So many poets have written poems to Emily and about her that she has become as much muse as poet. Novelists, playwrights, and moviemakers have also composed works about her, and literary scholars and researchers have mined every inch of her existence for facts. Emily's relatively short life was defined largely by short poems and so I end not with a sonnet but with a short poem about her. (JY)...Emily Dickinson stayed at home and each day wrote a little poem. A little poem each day turns out to be a lot to write about.

"Acclaimed writer Jane Yolen employs 15 sonnets, accompanied by brief biographical notes, to tell of the reclusive life and literary innovations of 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson"--Provided by publisher.