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Emily Dickinson is the sixth poet in my poet dedication series,
and the first female poet to be honored so far. Her
poetry is magnificent in so many ways and her life was
that of a true genius, a lonely person that had suffered
so many losses, so many deaths of friends famil , loved ones.
In fact much of her poetry is about death, dark and very sad
life experiences. This first blog is the first link of two
I will present. This one is far more brief a bio than the
next blog will be. Ihope you find thise great poet, herlife,
her poetry interesting enough toread this and the 
second much longer bio on her amazing life, talent and 
sufferings. I have started three poems dedicated to

this legendary artist and may even do a fourth poem.

Robert..

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First link,bio..

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/emily-dickinson?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_pLSifyu4AIVF7jACh1aPQoREAAYASAAEgJ2p_D_BwE

Poet  Emily Dickinson
1830-1886 , Amherst , MA
Emily Dickinson
Photo credit: Amherst College Library
Related Schools & Movements: 
Romanticism
Texts by this Poet: 
Letter to Susan Huntington Dickinson
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Texts about this Poet: 
Famous Last Words
Emily Dickinson Discussion Questions
A Close Reading of “I Cannot Live With You”
Emily Dickinson: Suggested Reading
A Guide to Emily Dickinson’s Collected Poems
My Favorite Poet: Emily Dickinson
Elegy and Eros: Configuring Grief
Aaron Copland: Capturing the Language of Emily Dickinson
Isaac Watts & Emily Dickinson: Inherited Meter
Victorian Treasure: Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium
Forms of Reticence
From the Archive: Poets’ Stamps
Letter to Susan Huntington Dickinson
read poems by this poet

Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. 
She attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, but only for
 one year. Throughout her life, she seldom left her home and visitors were few.
 The people with whom she did come in contact, however, had an enormous impact
 on her poetry. She was particularly stirred by the Reverend Charles Wadsworth,
 whom she first met on a trip to Philadelphia. He left for the West Coast shortly
 after a visit to her home in 1860, and some critics believe his departure gave
 rise to the heartsick flow of verse from Dickinson in the years that followed.
 While it is certain that he was an important figure in her life, it is not 
 clear that their relationship was romantic—she called him “my closest earthl
 many of Dickinson’s poems include Otis P. Lord, a Massachusetts Supreme Court 
 judge, and Samuel Bowles, editor of the Springfield Republican.

By the 1860s, Dickinson lived in almost complete isolation from the outside world,
 but actively maintained many correspondences and read widely. She spent a great 
 deal of this time with her family. Her father, Edward Dickinson, was actively 
 involved in state and national politics, serving in Congress for one term. Her
 brother, Austin, who attended law school and became an attorney, lived next door 
 with his wife, Susan Gilbert. Dickinson’s younger sister, Lavinia, also lived at
 home for her entire life in similar isolation. Lavinia and Austin were not only 
 family, but intellectual companions for Dickinson during her lifetime.

Dickinson’s poetry was heavily influenced by the Metaphysical poets of 
seventeenth-century England, as well as her reading of the Book of Revelation
 and her upbringing in a Puritan New England town, which encouraged a Calvinist,
 orthodox, and conservative approach to Christianity.

She admired the poetry of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, as well as 
John Keats. Though she was dissuaded from reading the verse of her contemporary 
Walt Whitman by rumors of its disgracefulness, the two poets are now connected by
 the distinguished place they hold as the founders of a uniquely American poetic
 voice. While Dickinson was extremely prolific as a poet and regularly enclosed
 poems in letters to friends, she was not publicly recognized during her lifetime.
 The first volume of her work was published posthumously in 1890 and the last in 
 1955. She died in Amherst in 1886.

Upon her death, Dickinson’s family discovered forty handbound volumes of nearly 
1,800 poems, or “fascicles” as they are sometimes called. Dickinson assembled 
these booklets by folding and sewing five or six sheets of stationery paper and
 copying what seem to be final versions of poems. The handwritten poems show a 
 variety of dash-like marks of various sizes and directions (some are even vertical).
 The poems were initially unbound and published according to the aesthetics of her
 many early editors, who removed her unusual and varied dashes, replacing them 
 with traditional punctuation. The current standard version of her poems replaces
 her dashes with an en-dash, which is a closer typographical approximation to her
 intention. The original order of the poems was not restored until 1981, when 
 Ralph W. Franklin used the physical evidence of the paper itself to restore her 
 intended order, relying on smudge marks, needle punctures, and other clues to 
 reassemble the packets. Since then, many critics have argued that there is a 
 thematic unity in these small collections, rather than their order being simply 
 chronological or convenient. The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson 
 (Belknap Press, 1981) is the only volume that keeps the order intact.

Selected Bibliography

Poetry

The Gorgeous Nothings: Emily Dickinson’s Envelope Poems (New Direction, 2013)
Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson’s Poems (Little, Brown, 1962)
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Little, Brown, 1960)
Bolts of Melody: New Poems of Emily Dickinson (Harper & Brothers, 1945)
Unpublished Poems of Emily Dickinson (Little, Brown, 1935)
Further Poems of Emily Dickinson: Withheld from Publication by Her Sister 
Lavinia (Little, Brown, 1929)
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Little, Brown, 1924)
The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime (Little, Brown, 1914)
Poems: Third Series (Roberts Brothers, 1896)
Poems: Second Series (Roberts Brothers, 1892)
Poems (Roberts Brothers, 1890)

Prose

Emily Dickinson Face to Face: Unpublished Letters with Notes and 
Reminiscences (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932)