Emily Dickinson (December 10,1830 -May 15,1886) was a 19th-century American poet. Although unknown during her own lifetime, Dickinson has since come to be regarded as one of the most brilliant and original poets in American literature, often being placed alongside other such luminaries asWalt Whitman andRobert Frost.

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  Drawing of Dickinson done from a painting made when she was nine
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  Daguerreotype taken at Mount Holyoke Seminary in December 1847 or early 1848
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  Cropped and re-touched version of previous image
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  Unauthenticated daguerreotype (c. 1850) that was discovered in 2000 on eBay
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  Unverified daguerreotype (c. 1859) that might show Dickinson (left) with Kate Scott Turner

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  Cover to 1890'sPoems
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  Handwritten manuscript of Dickinson's poem "Wild Nights – Wild Nights!" (c. 1861)
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  Handwritten manuscript ofA Route of Evanescence (c. 1880)
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  A letter Dickinson sent to Thomas H. Higginson in 1862, describing past loves Newton and Wadsworth
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  The Dickinson Homestead as seen in 2004
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  Enily Dickinson's tombstone in the family plot

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