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    Emily Dickinson was a prominent American poet who lived from 1830 to 1886 in Amherst, Massachusetts. She came from a respected family and received some schooling but spent most of her life in isolation at her family home. Dickinson wrote nearly 800 poems in her lifetime that were not published until after her death. Her poetry is distinctive for its unconventional use of capitalization, meter, punctuation and dashes.

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    Emily Dickinson was a prominent American poet who lived from 1830 to 1886 in Amherst, Massachusetts. She came from a respected family and received some schooling but spent most of her life in isolation at her family home. Dickinson wrote nearly 800 poems in her lifetime that were not published until after her death. Her poetry is distinctive for its unconventional use of capitalization, meter, punctuation and dashes.

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    Father

    Edward Dickinson

    1.Graduated from Yale


    2.Helped found Amherst
    College
    3. A treasurer of
    Amherst College for 36
    years
    4.A state representative
    and a state senator
    Mother
    Emily Norcross
    Dickinson

    In 1874, Edward
    Dickinson died and
    Emily Norcross
    Dickinson became
    paralyzed, leaving Emily
    and Lavinia, her
    daughters to take care of
    her.
    Emily Dickinson
    (1830-1886)
    The Belle of Amherst
    William Austin Dickinson (Emilys older brother)
    1. Married Susan Gilbert
    2. A justice of the peace in 1857
    3. He followed his father, and also became a treasurer of Amherst College

    Emily Dickinson
    Lavinia (Vinnie) Dickinson
    Helped with seeking for publishers for Dickinson after she died
    . She was born in a Puritans family. Her
    father was a famous lawyer.
    She lived a leisure and simple life and kept
    single all her life. She enjoyed gardening
    and writing and tried to avoid visitors.
    Emily Dickinson , born in Amherst,
    Massachusetts on Dec. 10, 1830, was the
    best poetess American ever created. She
    was a daughter of a prominent lawyer and
    politician. She did not receive much formal
    education but read widely at home.
    Actually, during the narrow span of her
    lifetime, she kept staying at home except
    for a few short trips to Boston or
    Philadelphia.
    Formal education
    Attended Amherst Academy for seven
    years and then, for only ten months,
    Mount Holyoke Female Seminary
    Reasons for leaving are not known:
    either she was in poor health, she rebelled
    against the evangelical fervour present at
    the school, or she was simply homesick
    Dickinson is considered.
    Considered one of the most original poets
    of the 19th century
    Taught in grade school, high school and
    college
    A powerful and persistent figure of
    American culture
    Heralded as the greatest woman poet in
    the English language
    LIFE
    The "deepening
    menace" of death,
    especially the death her
    cousin Sophia
    traumatized her in 1844

    Religious revival in
    1845:

    Some keep the Sabbath


    going to Church / I keep
    it, staying at Home
    LIFE
    Solitary lifestyle
    (she selected
    her own society
    and then shut the
    door)
    In 1858, she
    began to write
    clean copies of
    her work
    And her sister
    in law, Susan

    my most
    beloved friend,
    influence,
    muse, and
    adviser"
    The Life of a
    Writer
    In the summer of 1858
    she started revising
    her poems, making
    clean copies and
    writing in earnest

    By 1860 she had


    withdrawn from social
    life

    The first half of 1860s:


    her most productive
    writing period.
    A solemn thing
    it was I said

    A Woman
    White to be
    And wear if
    God should
    count me fit
    Her blameless
    mystery
    Her decision to dress in white has been
    read as an unconscious way to fictionalize
    herself into the roles of the little maid, the
    angel in the house or the eccentric artist.
    Like the blank page, the white dress
    suggests paradoxically both a way to
    inscribe herself as an invisible woman and
    as a self-assertive poet. (Gilbert and
    Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic)
    And she would produce.
    Forty bundles comprising nearly eight
    hundred poems but no one knew of
    these until after her death
    Emily died at the
    age of 55 of Brights
    Disease
    Her coffin was
    carried through
    daffodils, and
    Higginson read No
    Coward Soul is
    Mine by Emily
    Bronte, Emilys
    favorite poem
    She was buried at
    West Cemetery on
    Triangle Street in
    Amherst
    Lavinia promised.
    That she would burn Emilys
    correspondence after her death
    No instructions were left regarding the
    forty notebooks and loose sheets Emily
    left in her chest
    Vinnie sought to have them published
    Emily Ford has attributed the poet's
    retirement to an aesthetic sensibility:

    Dickinson's choice of life was related to


    the romantic idea that the life of an artist
    should be a life apart.
    Fisto edition,
    Poems of
    Emily
    Dickinson,
    appeared in
    1890, edited by
    Mabel Loomis
    Todd and T. W.
    Higginson
    1894 Letters of Emily Dickinson
    Edited by Mabel Loomis Todd
    1924 The Complete Poems of Emily
    Dickinson by Martha Dickinson
    1955 The Poems of Emily Dickinson, by
    Thomas Johnson
    In 1894.
    Two volumes of Emilys letters, highly
    edited, appeared
    Susan Dickinson (Austins wife) published
    some poems in literary magazines, such
    as Scribners Magazine and The
    Independent
    Martha Dickenson Bianchi (Emilys niece)
    published a series of collections between
    1914 and 1929
    Other volumes followed throughout the
    1930s
    In the 1960s.
    The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    was published by Thomas H. Johnson
    It contained all 1,775 of her poemsall
    unedited
    Various books of her poems and letters
    have been published since
    Dickinsons
    poetry is
    known for
    Random
    capitalization
    Unconventional
    broken rhyming
    meter
    Use of Dashes
    No titles
    Unconventional
    punctuation
    Use of metaphor

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