BIRTH OF A POET

EMILY ELIZABETH NORCROSS DICKINSON, named for her mother, was born on this day in 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts, in an old house that was said to have been the first erected of brick in Amherst.

Although she lived most of her life as a recluse, she was a prolific poet, writing poems on various themes; most of them dealt with death and immortality.

Her first collection of poems were published in 1890, four years after her death. However, she is now considered as one of the most important American poets of all time.

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