BIOGRAPHY

    Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830.  Although for a while she attended an all female school in her adolescence, she came back after a year because of homesickness.  She lived most of her life in solitude, thus many of her poems deal with the few people that did visit or impact her life.  She was always looking for something that she could never find, and consequently many of her poems reflect this theme.  During her life, she was never really recognized like most other women writers of her time period.  She was finally published after her death in 1890 and in our day is looked upon as one of the best poets of her time period.  In her lifetime she wrote about 1800 poems(seven were published in her lifetime).

    FAMOUS POEMS
 

    A Book
    A Charm Invests A Face
    A Narrow Fellow in the
    Grass
    A Thunderstorm
    A wounded deer leaps
    highest,
    Because I Could Not Stop
    for Death
    Come slowly, Eden!
    Death Sets A Thing
    Did The Harebell Loose
    Her Girdle
    Heart, we will forget him!
    Hope is the Thing with
    Feathers
    I Died for Beauty, but was
    Scarce
    I Felt a Funeral in My
    Brain
    I Went to Heaven
    I'm Nobody! Who are
    You?
    I've Known a Heaven Like
    a Tent
    My Life Closed Twice
    Before it Closed
    She Sweeps With
    Many-Colored Brooms
    Snake
    Success is Counted
    Sweetest
    Summer Shower
    The Bustle in a House
    The Mystery of Pain
    The Only News I Know
    The Pedigree of Honey
    There Came a Wind Like
    a Bugle
    There Is A Word
    There's a certain slant of
    light,
    There's Been a Death in
    the Opposite House
    This Is My Letter To The
    World
    This Quiet Dust was
    Gentlemen and Ladies
    We Like March
    When Roses Cease To
    Bloom, Dear
    Wild Nights! Wild Nights!
(list source: http://www.online-literature.com/dickinson/)

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www.bartleby.com/113/
www.amherst.edu/~edhouse/
www.sappho.com/poetry/historical/e_dickin.html
www.poets.org/academy/news/edick

David H., copyright 2002