She was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime. The poems went through 11 editions in less than two years, and their reach grew far beyond their first household audiences. In 1890, four years after her death, the first volume of her poetry was released to great acclaim.
In the last decade of the nineteenth century, however, the literary market provided new ground for her work. As a result, the majority of her friendships were maintained through correspondence. Locals thought her strange because of her preference for white clothing and her reluctance to meet guests or, later in life, even leave her chamber. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst.Įmily Dickinson created a new form of identity for the first person, similar to Charlotte Bront and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, on Decemto a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life.
She is one of America’s greatest and most original poets of all time. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet.
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