Poet

Emily Dickinson

1830–1886 · United States · American Renaissance

Born in Amherst, Massachusetts

American lyric poet whose concise verse explores nature, death, and hope.

Biography

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) wrote innovative, enigmatic poems largely unpublished in her lifetime, now central to American literature.

Literary period: American Renaissance

Lyric poems on hope, death, and nature

Palestine

United States

England

England