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 Brontė, 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
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