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ANSWER: NOVEMBER ALWAYS SEEMS TO ME THE NORWAY OF THE YEAR. —EMILY DICKINSON (Scroll down for more)
EMILY DICKINSON
DECEMBER 10, 1830 – MAY 15, 1886 • AGE 55 † • AMERICAN POET
🏡 A SMALL TOWN, AN EXTRAORDINARY IMAGINATION
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830. She attended Amherst Academy and spent a year at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, developing a love of literature, science, and the natural world.
🌸 FLOWERS, GARDENS, AND POETRY
Dickinson was an enthusiastic gardener who grew flowers and collected pressed plants in a carefully arranged herbarium. Her fascination with bees, birds, blossoms, and changing seasons became a recurring inspiration for her poetry.
📖 POEMS STITCHED TOGETHER BY HAND
Rather than publishing traditional books, Dickinson copied hundreds of poems onto folded sheets of paper and stitched them into small handmade booklets. Scholars call these remarkable collections fascicles, which preserved much of her writing for future generations.
✍️ A POET WHO BROKE THE RULES
Dickinson developed a distinctive style filled with unexpected dashes, unusual capitalization, and inventive rhymes. Her brief poems could explore enormous subjects, including hope, friendship, nature, and the mysteries of life.
✉️ A QUIET LIFE FILLED WITH LETTERS
Although Dickinson rarely left her family home in later adulthood, she maintained meaningful friendships through correspondence. In 1862, she began exchanging letters with writer Thomas Wentworth Higginson, sharing poems and discussing her unusual approach to writing.
🌟 NEARLY 1,800 POEMS, A LASTING LEGACY
Only about ten of Dickinson’s nearly 1,800 poems appeared in print during her lifetime. After her death in 1886, her sister Lavinia helped bring the manuscripts to public attention, leading to the first collection in 1890 and Dickinson’s eventual recognition as one of America’s greatest poets.
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