Emily Dickinson (Phoenix Hardback Poetry)

by EmilyDickinson (Author), HelenMcneil (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2002

  $4.16

  Emily Dickinson (1830-86) was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, the daughter of a lawyer and politician. Despite receiving a good education she returned home to Amherst, where she spent the rest of her life, writing more than a poem a day until her death. Her refusal to compromise her highly condensed expression, which meant that only a tiny fraction of her work was published in her lifetime, makes her seem startlingly modern today