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About Emily Dickinson
American poet
Emily Dickinson was an American poet. She was largely unpublished and little known during her lifetime, but her work is now regarded as part of the literary canon. The Poetry Foundation describes her writing as creating a distinctively elliptical language for expressing what was possible but not yet realized. Her poems are often read for their compressed style and for the way they open up feeling, thought, and possibility with unusual precision.
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Books by Emily Dickinson
The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II
1891
I'm Nobody! Who Are You?
2002
Poems, Series 1
2006
Poems, Series 2
2004