Emily Dickinson the American poetess Was

Emily Dickinson — the American poetess.

Was born in New England in the Puritan family living in Massachusetts since the XVII century

In 1840 there began at the same time with the sister training in Academy Amkhersta who only in two years before began to accept girls.

To academies spent seven years. Having finished it in the summer of 1847

Then it was trained in female seminary Maunt. Holiouk, in 16 km from Amkhersta. Then seminaries returned to seven parents in Amkherst and for the rest of the life lived there, seldom moving away from the house more than on five miles.

DESPITE STRICT PURITAN CUSTOMS IN A FAMILY, DICKINSON IT WAS FAMILIAR WITH MODERN LITERATURE. IN PARTICULAR, THE FRIEND OF HER FAMILY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN NEWTON ACQUAINTED HER WITH POETRY.

DURING LIFETIME PUBLISHED LESS THAN TEN POEMS FROM ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED, WRITTEN TO IT.

Even that was published, underwent serious editorial processing to provide poems according to poetic norms of that time.

Lines of poems are short, names, as a rule, are absent, and the unusual punctuation and use of capital letters often meet

It`s many verses contain motive of death and immortality, the same plots penetrate its letters to friends

THE SCALE OF HER CREATIVITY BECAME KNOWN ONLY AFTER EMILY DICKINSON'S DEATH WHEN HER YOUNGER SISTER LAVINIA IN 1886 FOUND UNPUBLISHED WORKS.

The first meeting of poetry Dickinson was published in 1890 and underwent strong editorial editing; full and almost unedited edition was issued in 1955 by Thomas Johnson.

Though publications caused adverse responses of criticism at the end of XIX and the beginning of the XX century, now Emily Dickinson is considered by criticism as one of the greatest American poets.