EMILY ELIZABETH DICKINSON (Biography)



EMILY ELIZABETH DICKINSON



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She was born on December 10th, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
She was a North American poet. She studied at the Amherst Academy her youth, and then she attended the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. Emily never married, and most of their friends contacted her only through letters by correspondence. She lived much of her life in reclusion and isolation. Yet, she was a prolific private poet, but only about a dozen of her nearly 1,800 poems were published during her lifetime. Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote. Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality. For she was also considered to be an eccentric by people of her time, for wearing white clothing and for not to be too polite with people when came to visit her.
She died on May 15th, 1886; officially of kidneys disease, when the symptoms worsened days after having an accident falling down in her kitchen and leaving her in great pain. Then after, Emily's younger sister, Lavinia, discovered her poems and her work became public. So, her first collection of poetry was published in 1890. Despite some unfavorable reception and skepticism over the late 19th and early 20th centuries regarding her literary prowess, she is now universally considered to be one of the most significant of all North American poets.


In case you want to get to know more about Emily Dickinson’s life, we will live the trailer of “A Quiet Passion” a Biographical film of her released in 2016:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh-XATkaRl0

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