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American poet who wrote nearly 1,800 poems, of which fewer than a dozen were published during her lifetime. Living as a recluse in Amherst, Massachusetts, she produced some of the most innovative and emotionally intense poetry in the English language, characterized by unconventional punctuation, slant rhyme, and compressed imagery. Her subjects — death, immortality, nature, love — were treated with startling originality and psychological depth. Her sister discovered the vast cache of poems after her death in 1886. She is now regarded alongside Walt Whitman as a founder of a uniquely American poetic voice.
Source: Emily Dickinson Museum