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Emily Dickinson and her Poetry

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"One of our most original writers, a force destined to endure in American letters." - Martha Hale Shackford, 1913

Emily Dickinson is one of America’s greatest and most original poets of all time. She took definition as her province and challenged the existing definitions of poetry and the poet’s work. Learn more about Emily Dickinson and her poems
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