Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet largely unpublished and unknown during her lifetime whose work is now widely regarded as canonical, described by the Poetry Foundation as creating a distinctively elliptical language for expressing what was possible but not yet realized. Born and raised in Amherst, Massachusetts, she was a prolific writer, yet only ten of her nearly 1,800 poems were published in her lifetime; her sister Lavinia discovered the bulk of her work in her desk after her death in 1886. Her poetry, dealing primarily with nature and mortality and marked by short acerbic lines and slant rhyme, was not restored close to her original intention until Thomas H. Johnson's 1955 complete edition, The Poems of Emily Dickinson. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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AwardNational Women's Hall of Fame, 1973. 1 Classification
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December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886
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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet largely unpublished and unknown during her lifetime whose work is now widely regarded as canonical, described by the Poetry Foundation as creating a distinctively elliptical language for expressing what was possible but not yet realized.
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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Largely unpublished and unknown during her lifetime, her work is now widely regarded as canonical.
Award: National Women's Hall of Fame
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830, May 15, 1886) 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 Largely unpublished and unknown during her lifetime, her work is now widely regarded as canonical.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." Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a prominent family.
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"Because I could not stop for Death" is a lyrical poem by Emily Dickinson first published posthumously in Poems: Series 1 in 1890.
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