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.
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Posted by Tel on December 10, 2008
This day, December 10 (1830), Emily Dickinson is born in Amherst, Massachusetts.
She was an American poet, considered one of the greatest poets in the English language.
She spent most of her adult life in her father’s house, in her own corner bedroom. The room contained, among others, a writing table, a dresser, a clock, and pictures on the wall of three writers: George Eliot, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Thomas Carlyle.
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