EMILY DICKINSON

Background

• She lived her life in almost total isolation
• Her work was influenced by the few visitors that came to her house
• The people she came in contact with, had an enormous impact on her poetry
• Her work was also influenced by the other poets of 17th century England as well as her reading of the book
• ....of revelation and her growing up in a Puritan New England town

WRITTEN BY EMILY DICKINSON

• Poems by Emily Dickinson (1890)
• Poems: Second Series (1891)
• Poems: Third Series (1896)
• The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime (1914)
• The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1924)

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• Further Poems of Emily Dickinson: Withheld from Publication by Her Sister Lavinia (1929)
• Bolts of Melody: New Poems of Emily Dickinson (1945)
• The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (1960)
• Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's Poems (1962)
• Emily Dickinson Face to Face: Unpublished Letters with Notes and Reminisces (1932)

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• A keen observer, she used images from nature, religion, law, music,
• ....commerce, medicine, fashion, and domestic activities