[Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime. The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Dickinson's poems are unique for the era in which she wrote; they contain short lines , typically lack titles , and often use slant rhyme as well as unconventional capitalization and punctuation . Many of her poems deal with themes of death and immortality, two recurring topics in letters to her friends.Though most of her acquaintances were probably aware of Dickinson's writing, it was not until after her death in 1886—when Lavinia , Emily's younger sister, discovered her cache of poems—that the breadth of Dickinson's work became apparent. Her first collection of poetry was published in 1...
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