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Emily Dickinson

Posted by Tel on April 5, 2009

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
American Poet, Considered One the 19th Century’s Finest

Emily Dickinson was an American poet, one of the greatest poets in the English language.

Though virtually unknown in her lifetime, along with Walt Whitman, she has been regarded as one of the two quintessential American poets of the 19th century. Dickinson lived a hermetic life. Although she wrote numerous poems, only a handful of them were published during her lifetime, anonymously or probably without her knowledge.

Read more - Emily Dickinson Biography and Poems

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