"Emily Dickinson" Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet of the nineteenth century. She was one of the greatest masters of the short lyric poem. Not much is known about her life, but what is known is unusual and interesting. Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on December tenth, eighteen hundred thirty, to a prominent family. She was the second child of three children. Her grandfather, Samuel Dickinson, was one of the founders of …showed first 75 words of 1059 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1059 total…ninety-six, Mrs. Todd edited a third series. These two revised all of Emily's poems; they smoothed the rhymes and meter. When Dickinson's niece, Martha Dickinson Bianchi, started to publish the poems, she didn't edit the poems as much. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson lived fifty-six years and half those years she lived in seclusion. She saw the world in a different view, and she showed it in her poetry. Emily has been ranked with the America's finest.