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Poems By Emily Dicksinson: Series Two (Edited by Her Two Close Friends) (Timeless Classic Books)
Poems By Emily Dicksinson Series Two - Edited by Her Two Close Friends - Timeless Classic Books Author:Emily Elizabeth Dickinson Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 to May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a successful family with strong community ties, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary b... more »efore returning to her family's house in Amherst. Thought of as an eccentric by the locals, she became known for her penchant for white clothing and her reluctance to greet guests or, later in life, even leave her room. Most of her friendships were therefore carried out by correspondence. Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime.« less