emily dickinson

     

Emily Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts to a successful family with strong community ties, she live a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After being schooled at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her youth, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before retiring to her family's house, the Homestead. Throughout her adult life she rarely traveled outside of Amherst or very far from home. 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.

Trivia about emily dickinson

  • The woman with the most quotes in the new edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is this American
  • "Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for" this poet on May 15, 1886
  • In 1890, 4 years after her death, the first volume of this "Amherst Nun's" poetry was published
  • Only 7 of her 1,775 poems were published during her lifetime
  • Julie Harris won her fifth Tony for playing this famous woman in "The Belle Of Amherst"
  • She was born at 280 Main Street in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830 & died there in 1886
  • This poet "heard a fly buzz--when I died", "with blue--uncertain stumbling buzz--between the light--and me--"
  • Odd thing, but she "heard a fly buzz when" she "died" & "felt a funeral in" her "brain"
  • Almost all of the poetry of this "New England Mystic" was first published after her death in 1886
  • Upon this woman's death in 1886, her sister Lavinia found nearly 1,000 poems hidden away in her bureau
  • Her headstone at West Cemetery in Amherst says she was "BORNDEC. 10, 1830CALLED BACKMAY 15, 1886"
  • The oldest brick house in the town of Amherst was built by this poet's grandfather in 1813
  • Helen Hunt Jackson's novel "Mercy Philbrick's Choice" may be a fictional portrait of this reclusive poet, her friend
  • She wrote, "Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me"
  • Her Poem No. 1333 tells us: "A little madness in the spring is wholesome even for the king"
  • In 1914, 146 of this late American's poems were published by her niece under the title "The Single Hound"
  • "The Belle of Amherst"
  • She wrote "Some keep the sabbath going to church -- I keep it, staying at home --"
  • The home of this poet who was out of the mainstream is at 280 Main St. in Amherst, Massachusetts
  • She wrote, "Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed"
  • Her "I Heard a Fly Buzz" may have been based on a chapter in "The House of the Seven Gables"
  • Only 7 of her poems were published during her lifetime--5 in the Springfield Republican
  • Sorry, I'm going to concentrate on my career & never marry, like this woman born in 1830 who wrote over 1,700 poems
  • Not often thought of as wild, she wrote, "Wild nights! Were I with thee, wild nights should be our luxury!"
  • A 19th c. shut-in / We really don't mean to butt in / Her "A Route of Evanescence" / Would've thrilled Donald Pleasence
  • "Success Is Counted Sweetest" was one of a handful of this poet's work published in her lifetime
  • "Called Back" is the epitaph on this poet's Amherst grave
  • "The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality" is a famous line from a poem by this woman
  • Just before "death kindly stopped for" her, this poet sighed, "I must go in; the fog is rising"
  • After she died in 1886, her sister Lavinia discovered hundreds of her poems in little handsewn booklets
  • She wrote the almost-rhyming verse heard here["Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul..."]
  • She wrote, "'Faith' is a fine invention when gentlemen can see-- but microscopes are prudent in an emergency"
  • You can't tell that this author set her own eyes for the color of the sherry in the glass that the guest leaves
  • This poet wrote to a friend, "we are by September and yet my flowers are as bold as June. Amherst has gone to Eden"
  • "Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words"
  • "The soul selectsher own society-then-shuts the door",she wrote in her poem No. 303
  • Except for a few short trips, she spent all of her 35 years in Massachusetts, almost all of it in Amherst
  • In one of her many untitled poems, this reclusive woman wrote, "Truth--is as old as God--& will endure as long as He"
  • There's only 1 character in "The Belle of Amherst" & it's her