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Emily Dickinson

Also known as Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

American poet (1830-1886)

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Emily Dickinson was an American poet who lived from 1830 to 1886 and is now recognized as one of the most important figures in American literature. Her innovative style and powerful exploration of themes like death, love, and spirituality have made her work enduringly influential and worth studying by readers interested in poetry.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Elizabeth
Family name: Dickinson
Gender: female
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: Amherst
Place of death: Amherst
Father: Edward Dickinson
Occupation: gardener
Educated at: Wilbraham & Monson Academy
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: English language
Award: National Women's Hall of Fame
Genre: poetry
Official website: www.emilydickinson.org
Image: Emily Dickinson daguerreotype (Restored, cropped, blown up, sepia).jpg
Residence: South Hadley

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Commons category: Emily Dickinson
date of birth: 1830-00-00
date of death: 1886-00-00
topic's main category: Category:Emily Dickinson
cause of death: Bright's disease
influenced by: Ralph Waldo Emerson
manner of death: natural causes
Commons gallery: Emily Dickinson
archives at: Harvard University
birth name: Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
writing language: English language
name in native language: Emily Dickinson
relative: Susan Huntington Gilbert Dickinson
has works in the collection: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
sexual orientation: lesbianism

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Encyclopedic overview

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 Largely unpublished and unknown during her lifetime, her work is now widely regarded as canonical.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. After studying at the Amherst Academy for seven years, she briefly attended the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning home to Amherst.

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