Emily Dickinson
1830–1886
Biography
Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830 and died there in 1886. She came from a prominent local family and studied for a time at the Amherst Academy and then briefly at the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. After that she returned to Amherst and lived most of her life in her family's house, writing in private.
She wrote nearly 1,800 poems, but only about ten were published in her lifetime. After her death her sister Lavinia found the manuscripts. The first selection, issued in 1890 and prepared by Thomas Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd, reshaped the poems to suit the taste of the day. Thomas H. Johnson's complete edition of 1955 restored them much closer to what Dickinson herself had written.
Her poems use short, sharp lines, plain description and slant rhyme, and most of them deal with nature and mortality. They are now widely seen as groundbreaking. The site holds Poems by Emily Dickinson, so readers can meet that compact and unusual voice directly.
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Books
Poems by Emily Dickinson (Three Series)
by Emily Dickinson
The poems of Emily Dickinson as her friends Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson first printed them in 1890, 1891 and 1896, gathered into three series. Each series is arranged under the headings Life, Love, Nature, and Time and Eternity. This book uses the racial and…
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