This poet responded to an article entitled "Letter to a Young Contributor" asking if "my Verse is alive" and received encouragement from that article's author, Thomas Wentworth Higginson. This author describes "mourners" that tread "to and fro" in a poem about a funeral and exalts "I'm Nobody! Who are you?" in another poem. This poet, who imagined taking a carriage ride with Immortality and Death, described hope as "the thing with feathers." For 10 points, name this Belle of Amherst who wrote "Because I Could Not Stop for Death."
a) Emily Dickinson
b) Maya Angelou
c) Sylvia Plath
d) Elizabeth Barrett Browning