Emily Dickinson

Amherst's narrow-yard poet: eighteen hundred compressed poems, almost none published while she lived.

Specifications & Metrics

era

1830 – 1886

language

English

region

Amherst, Massachusetts

notable works

'Because I could not stop for Death', 'Hope is the thing with feathers'

Core Principles & Analysis

• Fewer than a dozen of her poems appeared in print during her lifetime.
• Her dashes, slant rhymes, and compressed stanzas defied the conventions of her day.
• The posthumous editions, restored only decades later, made her a modern avant la lettre.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Emily Dickinson