Emily Dickinson Today, Emily Dickinson is known as one of America’s greatest poets of all time. Even though she devoted most of her time to poetry, she wasn’t recognized until the twentieth century (Myers 2). Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830, in a New England where Puritanism was dying and literature was finally coming to life (Linscott 1). She grew up in a wealthy household in Amherst, Massachusetts with sister Lavina, brother Austin, mother Emily, …showed first 75 words of 1160 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1160 total…Bio 2). If there is one thing Emily knew for sure, it was what a good poem should do, "If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that it’s poetry" (Casey 1). In all of her poems which survived revealed a passionate , witty women and a scrupulous craftsmen who made an art not only of her poetry but also of her correspondence and her life (Dickinson, Emily Bio 3).