Emily Dickinson

Introduction

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was a poet U.S., whose passionate poetry has placed its author in the small pantheon of founding American poets today Share with Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman. Emily Dickinson spent most of his life confined in a room in the house of his father in Amherst, and except five poems (three of them published without his signature and one without the author's knowledge), his enormous work remained unpublished and hidden until after his death.

Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson came from a prominent family of New England. His ancestors had come to the United States in the first wave of migration Puritan, and the strict religious Protestant who professed influenced the work of the artist. Lawyers, educators and political officials lived in the family tree of Emily, one of his ancestors was town clerk of Wethersfield, Connecticut in 1659, his grandfather Samuel Fowler Dickinson was forty years Judge Hampton County, Massachusetts, town clerk, representative in the General Court and a senator in the State Senate.

The poet's father, Edward Dickinson, a lawyer for Yale University, was a judge in Amherst, representative in the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, a senator in the state capital and last representative of the state of Massachusetts in Congress in Washington. Edward founded the Central Massachusetts Railroad railway line and also (with his father Samuel) The Amherst College, an educational institution somewhere between a school and the university that gave cultural luster to his forgotten and insignificant village. Edward Dickinson's partner in his law firm was a cousin of Ralph Waldo Emerson, for this reason, was always linked to the town of Amherst and influenced philosophy and work of Emily (Dickinson, 15).

Edward's wife and mother of the poet was Emily Norcross Dickinson (1,804 - one thousand eight hundred eighty-two), who towards the end of his life he was bedridden and in charge of their daughters. Emily Dickinson had two brothers: the eldest, William Austin Dickinson ( 1829 - 1 895 ), generally known by his middle name, married Susan Gilbert, a friend of his sister Emily, in 1856 and lived in the house adjoining that of his father (Dickinson, 15).

The self-imposed seclusion and isolation of Emily Dickinson were not sudden or "at the beginning, abnormal. Since his departure from the seminary until his death, Emily lived quietly in the house of his father, which was not uncommon for women of her ...