EMILY DICKINSON

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Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson:

The Anglo-American literary canon has long featured poetry about motherhood, and women poets have written, if not published, of children and maternal experiences since antiquity. Nevertheless, motherhood poets did not form a discernible literary tradition until the late 20th century. Typical obstacles faced by women poets increased by the risks of childbirth and responsibilities of childrearing. In addition, 19th- to mid-20th-century patriarchal ideologies of motherhood constrained literary expressions of mothering (Ostriker, 1980).

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, December 10, 1830 - May 15, 1886) was an American poet, whose poetry passion has placed its ...