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Learn about the private academy where Emily Dickinson studied from 1840 to 1847, and how it influenced her education and poetry. Explore the curriculum, teachers, and history of Amherst Academy, founded by her grandfather and Noah Webster.
Listing Noah Webster and Dickinson’s grandfather, Samuel Fowler Dickinson, among its founders, Amherst Academy was a sister institution to Amherst College and helped achieve the educational aspirations of the town. Like most New England schools of the period, it grounded its mission in Christianity, but the curriculum was also broad and ...
Amherst College ( / ˈæmərst / ⓘ [6] AM-ərst) is a private liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher education in Massachusetts. [7]
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson ( Amherst, Massachusetts, 10 de diciembre de 1830-Amherst, 15 de mayo de 1886) fue una poeta estadounidense, 1 su poesía apasionada la ha colocado en el reducido panteón de poetas fundamentales estadounidenses junto a Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson y Walt Whitman.
En el año 1840, Emily acudió a la Amherst Academy. Siete años después ingresó en el seminario femenino Mount Holyoke, centro en el que permaneció durante breve tiempo.
Emily Dickinson attended Amherst Academy in her Massachusetts hometown. She showed prodigious talent in composition and excelled in Latin and the sciences. A botany class inspired her to assemble an herbarium containing many pressed plants identified in Latin.
Amherst Academy. The first mass of Puritans had arrived in Massachusetts by 1630, and soon afterward, they began passing laws for education. To Puritans, learning to read meant reading the Bible, which saved a soul, and in 1648, the Massachusetts General Court passed its third education law.
