Emily Dickinson was a nineteenth Century poet. There were many things that influenced her poetry, such as, her life as a mysterious spinster. Her education and religion, or lack there of, also had a major impact in her work. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. Emily was the second child to Edward and Emily Norcross Dickinson. Emily, Austin, her older brother, and Lavinia, her younger sister, were brought up in a …showed first 75 words of 674 total…

…showed last 75 words of 674 total…Holland, her nephew Gilbert, her mother and her dearest friend Charles Wadsworth. Emily had written over 2000 poems and only 7 were published in her lifetime, without her consent. Everything from Emily’s life, to her conflict with religion, made her one of the greatest and most influential American poets of the nineteenth Century. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson died on May 15, 1886, at the age of 56. That day, the world lost one of its most talented and insightful poets.