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Emily Dickinson
Emily 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 Largely unpublished and unknown during her lifetime, her work is now widely regarded as canonical.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."
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culture · American poet (1830–1886) · writer · poet · gardener · librettist · also Emily Dickinson, Dickinson
Born 10 December 1830 · Died 15 May 1886 · Q4441
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2026· 4 entries
“That it will never come again/is what makes life so sweet.”
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“if my lyrics sound like a letter written by Emily Dickinson”
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“I never enjoyed such perfect peace and happiness as the short time in which I felt I had found my Savior.”
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: Poem of the week: Death sets a Thing significant … by Emily Dickinson
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2024· 3 entries
The Guardian: Montreal metallers Big Brave on doom, despondency and Emily Dickinson: ‘We’re sick as a species’
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The Guardian: Poem of the week: The saddest noise, the sweetest noise by Emily Dickinson
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The Guardian: Taylor Swift is related to Emily Dickinson, genealogy company reveals
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: Poem of the week: She rose to His Requirement by Emily Dickinson
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2022· 1 entry
The Guardian: ‘A little bit addictive and the right amount hard’: new video game is based on poems of Emily Dickinson
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2021· 1 entry
The Guardian: Poem of the week: Under the Light, yet under by Emily Dickinson
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2020· 1 entry
The Guardian: Poem of the week: Of Bronze — and Blaze (319) by Emily Dickinson
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2019· 1 entry
The Guardian: Dickinson review – Emily Dickinson reborn as a Lizzo-loving feminist
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2006· 2 entries
As Emily Dickinson's Herbarium by Harvard University Press
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Is available from Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları through its special Hasan Âli Yücel classics series
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2003· 1 entry
When ownership of the Evergreens, which had been occupied by Dickinson family heirs until 1988, was transferred to the college
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2001· 1 entry
“The consequences of the poet”
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1998· 1 entry
The New York Times reported on a study in which infrared technology revealed that certain poems of Dickinson's had been deliberately censored to exclude the name "Susan"
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1994· 1 entry
Listed her among the 26 central writers of Western civilization
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1988· 1 entry
Eight years after an Emily Dickinson Society was formed in Japan in 1980
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1981· 1 entry
The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson was published
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1979· 1 entry
Features a place setting for Dickinson
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1976· 1 entry
Winning several awards; it was later adapted for television
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1973· 1 entry
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1973).
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1971· 1 entry
As the second stamp in the "American Poet" series
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1965· 1 entry
In recognition of Dickinson's growing stature as a poet, the Homestead was purchased by Amherst College
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1955· 2 entries
Dickinson's poems were considerably edited and altered from their manuscript versions
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With a completely new three-volume set edited by Thomas H
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1892· 1 entry
Wrote: "The world will not rest satisfied till every scrap of her writings, letters as well as literature, has been published"
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1891· 3 entries
Called "A Child's Recollection of Emily Dickinson", thought of her as always offering support to the neighborhood children
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Running to five editions by 1893; a third series appeared in 1896
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That her poetry had "a strange mixture of rare individuality and originality"
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1890· 1 entry
Edited by Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd, the poems were significantly altered to fit the prevailing poetic conventions of the time
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1886· 2 entries
Died 1886-05-15.
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After several days of worsening symptoms, Dickinson died at the age of 55
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1885· 1 entry
Her feebleness and other symptoms were so worrying that Austin canceled a trip to Boston
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1882· 5 entries
Dickinson's "Shepherd from 'Little Girl'hood", Charles Wadsworth, also had died after a long illness
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With Mabel Loomis Todd, an Amherst College faculty wife who had recently moved to the area
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“We were never intimate ... while she was our Mother – but Mines in the same Ground meet by tunneling and when she became our Child, the Affection came.”
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“home, or mother. I do not go out at all, lest father will come and miss me, or miss some little act, which I might forget, should I run away – Mother is much as usual. I Know not what to hope of her”
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“With the exception of Shakespeare, you have told me of more knowledge than any one living.”
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1880· 2 entries
Gave her Mary Cowden Clarke's Complete Concordance to Shakespeare (1877)
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“While others go to Church, I go to mine, for are you not my Church, and have we not a Hymn that no one knows but us?”
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1877· 1 entry
His friendship with Dickinson probably became a late-life romance, though as their letters were destroyed, this is surmised
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1875· 1 entry
Dickinson's mother also suffered a stroke, which produced a partial lateral paralysis and impaired memory
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1874· 1 entry
While in Boston, Edward Dickinson suffered a stroke and died
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1872· 1 entry
Or 1873 became an acquaintance of Dickinson's
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1870· 2 entries
“s Monthly beginning in 1870, Holland told Dickinson”
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Holland told Dickinson's childhood friend Emily Fowler Ford that he had "some poems of [Dickinson's] under consideration for publication [in Scribner's Monthly]—but they really are not suitable—they are too ethereal
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1868· 1 entry
So they could formally meet for the first time, she declined, writing: "Could it please your convenience to come so far as Amherst I should be very glad, but I do not cross my Father's ground to any House or town"
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1864· 1 entry
Several poems were altered and published in Drum Beat, to raise funds for medical care for Union soldiers in the war
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1860· 1 entry
86 poems in 1861, 366 in 1862, 141 in 1863, and 174 in 1864
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1858· 1 entry
Dickinson began to collect her poems in the small hand-sewn books she called fascicles
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1856· 1 entry
After a four-year courtship, though their marriage was not a happy one
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1850· 1 entry
“Amherst is alive with fun this winter ... Oh, a very great town this is!”
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1848· 1 entry
Studied at Mount Holyoke College (1847–1848).
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1847· 2 entries
Dickinson began attending Mary Lyon's Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later became Mount Holyoke College, in South Hadley, about ten miles (16 km) from Amherst
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Studied at Amherst Academy (1840–1847).
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1845· 1 entry
A religious revival took place in Amherst, resulting in 46 confessions of faith among Dickinson's peers
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1840· 2 entries
Dickinson and her sister Lavinia started together at Amherst Academy, a former boys' school that had opened to female students just two years earlier
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“always ran Home to Awe [Austin] when a child, if anything befell me. She was an awful Mother, but I liked her better than none.”
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1830· 2 entries
Born 1830-12-10.
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Into a prominent, but not wealthy, family
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1828· 1 entry
Married Emily Norcross from Monson, Massachusetts
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1813· 2 entries
In 1813, he built the Homestead, a large mansion on Amherst's main street, that became the focus of Dickinson family life for the better part of a century.
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Built the Homestead, a large mansion on Amherst's main street, that became the focus of Dickinson family life for the better part of a century
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