emily elizabeth dickinson

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Definition of emily elizabeth dickinson in English English dictionary

born Dec. 10, 1830, Amherst, Mass., U.S. died May 15, 1886, Amherst U.S. poet. Granddaughter of the cofounder of Amherst College and daughter of a respected lawyer and one-term congressman, Dickinson was educated at Amherst (Mass.) Academy and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. She subsequently spent virtually all her life, increasingly reclusive, in her family home in Amherst. She began writing in the 1850s; by 1860 she was boldly experimenting with language and prosody, striving for vivid, exact words and epigrammatic concision while adhering to the basic quatrains and metres of the Protestant hymn. The subjects of her deceptively simple lyrics, whose depth and intensity contrast with the apparent quiet of her life, include love, death, and nature. Her numerous letters are sometimes equal in artistry to her poems. By 1870 she was dressing only in white and declining to see most visitors. Of her 1,775 poems, only seven were published during her lifetime. After posthumous publications (some rather inaccurate), her reputation and readership grew. Her complete works were published in 1955, and she has since become universally regarded as one of the greatest American poets

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Emily Dickinson

a US poet whose clever and original work is still very popular. She is sometimes called "the Belle of Amherst", and was a recluse (=someone who lives alone and avoids other people) for the last 25 years of her life (1830-86). born Dec. 10, 1830, Amherst, Mass., U.S. died May 15, 1886, Amherst U.S. poet. Granddaughter of the cofounder of Amherst College and daughter of a respected lawyer and one-term congressman, Dickinson was educated at Amherst (Mass.) Academy and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. She subsequently spent virtually all her life, increasingly reclusive, in her family home in Amherst. She began writing in the 1850s; by 1860 she was boldly experimenting with language and prosody, striving for vivid, exact words and epigrammatic concision while adhering to the basic quatrains and metres of the Protestant hymn. The subjects of her deceptively simple lyrics, whose depth and intensity contrast with the apparent quiet of her life, include love, death, and nature. Her numerous letters are sometimes equal in artistry to her poems. By 1870 she was dressing only in white and declining to see most visitors. Of her 1,775 poems, only seven were published during her lifetime. After posthumous publications (some rather inaccurate), her reputation and readership grew. Her complete works were published in 1955, and she has since become universally regarded as one of the greatest American poets

Emily Dickinson

{i} (1830-1886) United States poet known for her reclusive lifestyle, author of "I'm nobody! Who are you?

Hyphenation

E·mi·ly E·liz·a·beth Dick·in·son

Turkish pronunciation

emîli îlîzıbıth dîkînsın

Pronunciation

/ˈeməlē əˈləzəbəᴛʜ ˈdəkənsən/ /ˈɛmɪliː ɪˈlɪzəbəθ ˈdɪkɪnsən/