Emily Elizabeth DickinsonEmily Dickinson was a 19th century
American poet. She was born in Amherst, Massachusetts on
December 10, 1830. She had a quiet life. Her poems were about
love, death, and immortality. She went to Amherst Academy and
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in South Hadley, Massachusetts.
She never married but fell in love. By 1858 she began to copy
her poems in ink and tie them together with thread. In her
twenties she began to write serious poetry. Helen Jackson, the
novelist, tried to convince her to publish some of her poems but
did not succeed. Usually, her poems had a certain rhythm. She
became one of the greatest poets in the English language. She
died in 1886. 1999, by Tanya, fourth grade