The speakers in Dickinson’s poetry … are sharp-sighted observers who see the inescapable limitations of their societies as well as their imagined and imaginable escapes. “…she crafted a new type of persona for the first person. Poetry Foundation describes her particular gift evocatively : Her capacity for philosophical insight, clear headed prophecy and critique of the times she lived in, constructed in poetry of metrical finnesse and formal innovation, became a benchmark for generations of American poets to aspire to. Her first collection of poetry was published 4 years after her death and was massively well received running into 11 editions. During her lifetime, only 10 poems (from a body of work that stretched to approximately 1800 poems) were published. Emily Dickinson, widely considered one of the most influential American poets of her time only found fame and recognition posthumously.
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