Synonyms:
Dickinson, Emily_Dickinson
Meaning: United States poet noted for her mystical and unrhymed poems (1830-1886)
Usage examples
Miss Dickinson told me.'
Emily Dickinson appears to have written her first poems in the winter of 1862.
The "portfolios" were found, shortly after Emily Dickinson's death, by her sister and only surviving housemate.
Although Emily Dickinson had been in the habit of sending occasional poems to friends and correspondents, the full extent of her writing was by no means imagined by them.
Emily Dickinson scrutinized everything with clear-eyed frankness. Every subject was proper ground for legitimate study, even the sombre facts of death and burial, and the unknown life beyond.
In Emily Dickinson's exacting hands, the especial, intrinsic fitness of a particular order of words might not be sacrificed to anything virtually extrinsic; and her verses all show a strange cadence of inner rhythmical music.
The eagerness with which the first volume of Emily Dickinson's poems has been read shows very clearly that all our alleged modern artificiality does not prevent a prompt appreciation of the qualities of directness and simplicity in approaching the greatest themes,--life and love and death.