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This section of the Emily Dickinson Museum’s website is intended to dispel myths about this fascinating figure by introducing users to the realities of Dickinson’s life, key aspects of her poetry, important family members and friends, and significant personal interests. In this section: About Dickinson’s Poetry; Emily Dickinson’s Biography
Biography Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson, regarded as one of America’s greatest poets, is also well known for her unusual life of self-imposed social seclusion. Living a life of simplicity and seclusion, she yet wrote poetry of great power; questioning the nature of immortality and death, with at times an almost mantric quality.
7 de sept. de 2020 · Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886) fue una poetisa norteamericana que desarrolló su obra durante el siglo XIX. ... Emily Dickinson | Biography, Poems, & Analysis. [online] Encyclopedia Britannica. Available at: britannica.com [Accessed 14 August 2020]. Emilydickinsonmuseum.org. 2020.
10 Emily Dickinson Facts. 1. Her family home is a museum. Samuel Dickinson, Emily Dickinson's grandfather, had the family home built in the 19th century. It was a large mansion in the center of Amherst that became the Dickinson family home for over a century before it was sold. In 1965 Amherst College bought the homestead.
Emily Dickinson, (born Dec. 10, 1830, Amherst, Mass., U.S.—died May 15, 1886, Amherst), U.S. poet. Granddaughter of the cofounder of Amherst College and daughter of a respected lawyer and one-term congressman, Dickinson was educated at Amherst (Mass.) Academy and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. She subsequently spent virtually all her life ...
Emily Dickinson. Emily Dickinson was almost unknown as a poet in her lifetime, but she became famous in the 20th century. This may - or may not - be a photo of her in her later years. Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886) was an American poet. She is known as "one of America’s greatest and most original poets of all time." [1]
1 de dic. de 1974 · The life of Emily Dickinson, Richard B. Sewall's monumental biography of the great American poet (1830-1886), won the National Book Award when it was originally published in two volumes. Now available in a one-volume edition, it has been called "by far the best and most complete study of the poet's life yet to be written, the result of nearly twenty years of work" ( The Atlantic ).
