Emily Dickinson

A detailed Summary of Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts, to

Emily Narcross Dickinson and Edward Dickinson. The poet was the second of three

children, being a year younger than her brother, William Austin, and two years older

than her sister, Lavinia. (Bloom 187).

A lively, curious child, Emily described herself as being "small, like the wren"

with "bold hair, like the chestnut bur" and large brown eyes "like the sherry in the glass,

that the guest leaves." At school she was considered a bright student whose English

compositions were, according to her brother, "unlike anything ever heard?and always

produced a sensation?both with the scholars and teachers?her imagination

sparkled?and she gave it free reign." A voracious reader, she especially admired the

craftsmanship of accomplished women writers such as Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot,

and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. (Kort )

Dickinson's major themes were spirituality, nature, passion, love, individual

integrity, and death. Devoting herself entirely to the exploration of these themes in her

remarkably original voice, Dickinson bec

the whole message of a sentence. She favored hymnal-style short lines and stanza

extremely well received by the public: it was reprinted 11 times within two years. But,

poetry by important American poets. Unlike Higginson, Jackson recognized that

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Category: English

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