"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...

Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts, to Emily Narcross Dickinson and Edward Dickinson. The poet was the second of three children, being a year younger than her brother, William Austin, and two years older than her sister, Lavinia. ...