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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on December 10, 1830. She was a reclusive American poet, unrecognized in her time. Due to a discovery by sister Lavinia, Dickinson’s work was published after her death on May 15, 1886. She is now one of the American’s greatest and most original poets of all time. She experimented with expression as well wrote with an unusual mindset that was morbid for it was based on death, immortality and religion. Even a humble section of Emily's poems reveals that death is the main subject of her poems. During the 1880s Dickinson also endured the loss of several close friends Charles Wadsworth, Judge Otis P. Lord, and Helen Hunt Jackson - and several family members, including

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