Emily Dickinson - Biography.

Emily Dickinson - Biography. American poet Birth December 10, 1830 Death May 15, 1886 Place of Birth Amherst, Massachusetts Known for Exploring personal themes of love, death, and religion in short, lyrical poems Milestones 1840s Attended Amherst Academy and Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (now Mount Holyoke College) 1850s Began writing poetry voluminously, organizing her work into small booklets 1862 Sent four poems to American writer Thomas Wentworth Higginson for his opinion; he advised her not to publish them 1886 After Dickinson's death, her sister Lavinia discovered her poems and gave them to Thomas Wentworth Higginson and Mabel Loomis Todd for publication. 1890 Editors Higginson and Todd published about 115 of Dickinson's poems in Poems of Emily Dickinson. 1955 The first complete collection of Dickinson's poems appeared in The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson. Did You Of the 1,775 poems Dickinson wrote, only 7 were published during her lifetime. Know Dickinson rarely left Amherst, and in her later years she rarely left her family home. American writer Thomas Wentworth Higginson was a lifelong mentor to Dickinson, despite the fact that he initially discouraged her from publishing her work. While Dickinson is often characterized as reclusive and somewhat eccentric, she is known to have maintained close relationships with family and friends. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.