Emily Elzibeth Dickinson

A detailed Summary of Emily Elzibeth Dickinson

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson is an American lyric poet of the nineteenth century who has also been called "the New England mystic". (Britannica #4) She is one of the greatest masters of the short poem. There is very little known about her life, but it was unusually and interesting. Emily was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on December 10th, 1830. Emily's father, Edward Dickinson, was a lawyer and a politician. He was on the General Court of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts State Senate, and the U.S. House of Reps. Her mother, Emily Dickinson, was a housewife, she suffered from a long-term illness and Emily took care of her. Her grandfather, Samuel Fowler Dickinson, was one of the founders of the Amherst College. Emily was the second of three children. Her youngest sister, Lavinia, lived with their family her whole life and never married. Then there was her older brother, Austin, who got married, but just lived right next door in his own house. Emily and her brothers and sisters we!

re very close and stayed close throughout their lives. (Britannica #4)

Emily went to a primary school for four years, then to Amherst Academy for seven more years. During these years Emily's parents noticed that she was a female genius. From there she atte

Emily wrote somewhere from 1500 to 2000 poems during her time. Almost all of her poems were untitled. Although Emily wrote so many poems only around six of them were ever published while she was still alive. (http://www.cswnet.com/~erin/edbio.htm) The reason for this was because her poetry was ahead of its time that people weren't used to her style of writing. She had great talent for writing poems, but it was not acknowledged until after her death. The rest of her poems were published threw the friends she had written letters to previously and they had the poems she had sent them published. Some of the other poems were found by her sister, Lavinia, in a hand sew booklet in her room. Her sister had these poems all published, but because they were untitled, they used the first couple of words or the first line to title the poem. Emily Dickinson lived 56 years, but half of those years she lived in seclusion. She looked at the world in a different view than others, and it showed !

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