Who was Emily Elizabeth Dickinson?

* Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830-1886), American poet, known as the New England mystic; innovator in the use of poetic language, forms, and pulsations; author of 1,775 poems, most produce posthumously. * Born December 10, 1830 in Amherst, MA; her grandfather was order of Amherst College; her father was treasurer of the college and U.S. Congressman; both of her parents were cold, distant, severe people. * tended to(p) Amherst Academy, spend one year (1847-1848) at Mount Holyoke female individual Seminary in South Hadley; she resisted Christian indoctrination and returned to the family home in Amherst. * 1855, visits to crown of the United States and Philadelphia while her father was in Congress; met and was befriended by Rev. Charles Wadsworth, an Jewish-Orthodox Calvinist preacher * Correspondence with Wadsworth; also corresponded with Samuel Bowles, editor in chief of the Springfield republican; Bowles criticized her poetry barely, eventually, a few of her poems wer e published in his paper. * defeated love for a man she called attain (maybe Bowles or Wadsworth) in drafts of her letters. * 1862, began correspondence with Thomas Wentworth Higginson who showed interest in her poetry but advised her not to publish it; afterward that she resisted any attempts at the publication of her work.

* She wrote little until the early 1860s; then(prenominal) wrote prolifically for the rest of her flavor (1,775 poems in all); the years of the Civil state of war were her most prolific achievement (800 poems); collected her poems in hand-sewn booklets; experimented with language, syntax, and rhythm (predominance of quatrains in ia! mbic trimeter); conciseness of language. * Influence of the Metaphysical poets of seventeenth-century England and also writers of the Romantic period like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily her work shows Romantic ideals and desires assorted with struggles of religious tone and influence of New England Puritanism. * During part of 1864 and... If you require to get a full essay, order it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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