Historical FigureFemale
Emily Dickinson
1830 – 1886
About this person
Wikipedia SummaryEmily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Largely unpublished and unknown during her lifetime, her work is now widely regarded as canonical. The Poetry Foundation describes her as having "created in her writing a distinctively elliptical language for expressing what was possible but not yet realized."
Biographical & Professional Details
Date of birth
December 10, 1830
Amherst
Date of death
May 15, 1886
Amherst
Citizenship
United States
Occupations & fields
writerpoetgardenerlibrettist
Awards & honours
National Women's Hall of Fame
- Field and occupation
- amerciká poetka
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