December Poet – Emily Dickinson

Posted by Linda Sue Grimes Dec 1, 2007

Neither Dickinson nor Shakespeare left prose writings or autobiographies; Dickinson’s letters read much like her poetry. Both Dickinson and Shakespeare have provided scholars and critics a great riddle that they go about solving in various ways. Whitman left a great amount of prose.

Anyway, this month is Emily Dickinson’s month. She was born on December 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. My article on Dickinson looks at her poem “’Twas just this time, last year, I died” which dramatizes the after death experience, a favorite topic of the Nun of Amherst.

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