Emily Dickinson
1830 – 1886 American poet
The reclusive poet who quietly reinvented American verse.
- Religion
- Raised in strict Calvinist New England, she refused formal church membership and kept a private, questioning relationship with God.
- Affiliations
- None. She lived in near seclusion.
Dickinson wrote nearly 1,800 compressed, startling poems on death, faith, nature, and the mind, almost none published in her lifetime. Her dashes, slant rhymes, and daring compression broke poetic convention. She is now regarded as one of the greatest American poets.