Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830. She seldom left her house and had few visitors. The ones she met had an intense impact on her thought and poetry. Even though she lived in almost total isolation from the world physically, she maintained correspondences and read widely. Her loneliness and state of want is reflected in her poetry. Her poetry is also marked by her recollection of inspirational moments which are life-giving and suggest future happiness.
Ms. Dickinson was influenced by the poets of seventeenth-century England, by her Puritan upbringing, and by the Book of Revelation. Poets she admired were Robert and Elizabeth Barret Browning and John Keats. Emily Dickinson is distinguished as one of the founders of a uniquely American poetic voice. Extremely prolific as a poet, she regularly enclosed poems in letters to friends. However, she was not publicly recognized until after her death. Her works were first published posthumously in 1890 with the last in 1955. Emily Dickinson died in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1886.
Some Poems of Emily Dickinson
I'm nobody! Who are you? (288)
I died for beauty
I felt a funeral, in my brain (280)
I heard a fly buzz (465)
I measure every grief I meet (561)
I never saw a moor
I taste a liquor never brewed (214)
In this short life
Fame is a fickly food (1659)
Pain has an element
Parting
The chariot
There's a certain slant of light (258)
To make a prairie (1755)