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Poet · 1830–1886 · Art & Literature
Wrote nearly 1,800 poems in an Amherst bedroom, published about ten, and stitched the rest into small hand-sewn booklets nobody saw until she died.
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““Hope” is the thing with feathers — that perches in the soul.”
Dickinson, poem 314
Dickinson spent almost all of her life in her family's house on Main Street in Amherst, Massachusetts, increasingly withdrawn from the town but not from people — she wrote letters constantly. Her poems are short, metrically tied to hymn tunes, and broken open by dashes and slant rhyme. She sent some to the editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who admired them and advised her not to publish; the handful that appeared in print in her lifetime were smoothed out by editors. After her death her sister Lavinia found around forty hand-bound fascicles in a chest. A complete text respecting her punctuation did not appear until 1955.
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You can put that to the Emily Dickinson persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Emily Dickinson’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1830–1886, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Emily Dickinson persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Emily Dickinson’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1830–1886, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Emily Dickinson persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Emily Dickinson’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1830–1886, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
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