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Apr 19, 2024 · Emily Dickinson, American lyric poet who lived in seclusion and commanded a singular brilliance of style and integrity of vision. With Walt Whitman, Dickinson is widely considered to be one of the two leading 19th-century American poets. Learn more about her life and works in this article.
Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. While she was extremely prolific as a poet and regularly enclosed poems in letters to friends, she was not publicly recognized during her lifetime. She died in Amherst in 1886, and the first volume of her work was published posthumously in 1890.
1828, May 6. Marriage of Edward Dickinson and Emily Norcross, Emily Dickinson’s parents. 1829, 16 April. Birth of William Austin Dickinson, Emily Dickinson’s brother. 1830, 10 December. Birth of Emily Elizabeth Dickinson. 1833, 28 February. Birth of Lavinia Norcr oss Dickinson, Emily Dickinson’s sister. May 1833.
20 hours ago · The Letters of Emily Dickinson collects 1,304 letters, starting with one she wrote at age 11. Her singular voice comes into its own in the letters of the 1860s, which often blur into poems.
Often caricatured in popular culture as a white-clad recluse who poured out morbid verse in the sanctuary of her bedroom, Emily Dickinson was a serious artist whose intellectual curiosity and emotional intensity are revealed in concise and compelling poems that capture a range of human experiences.
Emily Dickinson 101. Demystifying one of our greatest poets. By The Editors. Portrait by Sophie Herxheimer. Emily Dickinson published very few poems in her lifetime, and nearly 1,800 of her poems were discovered after her death, many of them neatly organized into small, hand-sewn booklets called fascicles.
1 day ago · Tess Kelley, Harvard College ’23, reports on a recent talk at Houghton Library. “A Letter is a joy of Earth — it is denied the Gods,” Emily Dickinson proclaimed in an 1885 letter. In another, she likened a letter to a gun, “harmless because ‘unloaded,’ but that touched ‘goes off.’”. To Dickinson scholar Dr. Cristanne Miller ...
