Emily Dickinson

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] She is famous for writing almost 1,800 poems. Only a few of them were printed while she was living. Because she wrote in a different way, other people changed parts of her poems before the world could read them. She was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, lived her whole life there, and died there after a long illness. People describe her poems as lyrical and original. She grew a garden of herbs and wild flowers for their healing abilities and often talked about them in her poems.^[2]

Emily Dickinson's poetry has had a big effect on the poetry of other writers.^[3][4] Her complete poems were printed only after she died. The first people to print those poems often changed them to fit the poetry style of that time.^[5] The first printing of her complete poems in the way she wrote them was in 1955 in The Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas Johnson. That work contained 1,775 poems.^[6] Another collection by R. W. Franklin in 1998 contained 1,789 poems.^[7] Her poems are now very easy to find in libraries and bookstores.

1. ↑ "Emily Dickinson". Poetry Foundation. 2023-01-21. Retrieved 2023-01-22.
2. ↑ "Emily Dickinson and Gardening – Emily Dickinson Museum". Retrieved 2023-01-03.
3. ↑ "Emily Dickinson | Biography, Poems, Death, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
4. ↑ Lambert, Molly; Lambert, Molly (2019-11-01). "Tell It Slant: Modern Women Writers Reflect on Emily Dickinson's Influence". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
5. ↑ "Emily Dickinson | Biography, Poems, Death, & Facts | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
6. ↑ "The Poems of Emily Dickinson — Emily Dickinson, Thomas H. Johnson | Harvard University Press". www.hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
7. ↑ "The Poems of Emily Dickinson — Emily Dickinson, R. W. Franklin". www.hup.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-03.