Emily Dickinson

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American poet lyric poet person poet

Emily Dickinson was a reclusive 19th-century American poet renowned for her innovative, compact verse and profound explorations of death, nature, and the inner life.

Aliases (6)

Statements (63)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American poet → lyric poet → person → poet →
activeYearsEnd	1886 →
activeYearsStart	1850 →
burialPlace	West Cemetery, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States →
causeOfDeath	Bright's disease →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1830-12-10 →
dateOfDeath	1886-05-15 →
describedAs	reclusive 19th-century American poet →
educatedAt	Amherst Academy → Mount Holyoke Female Seminary →
familyName	Dickinson →
father	Edward Dickinson →
fullName	Emily Elizabeth Dickinson →
gender	female →
genre	love poetry → lyric poetry → metaphysical poetry → nature poetry → religious poetry →
givenName	Elizabeth → Emily →
influenced	20th-century American poets → modernist poetry →
knownFor	exploration of death → exploration of immortality → exploration of inner life and consciousness → exploration of nature → innovative use of slant rhyme → short, compact poetic forms → unconventional punctuation and capitalization →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
mother	Emily Norcross Dickinson →
movement	American poetry → Romanticism → Transcendentalism →
notableWork	A Bird came down the Walk → Because I could not stop for Death → Hope is the thing with feathers → I cannot live with You → I died for Beauty—but was scarce → I felt a Funeral, in my Brain → I heard a Fly buzz—when I died → I like to see it lap the Miles → I taste a liquor never brewed → My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun → Publication—is the Auction → There’s a certain Slant of light → This World is not Conclusion → Wild nights—Wild nights! →
numberOfPoemsComposed	approximately 1800 →
occupation	poet →
placeOfBirth	Amherst, Massachusetts, United States →
placeOfDeath	Amherst, Massachusetts, United States →
posthumousRecognition	major figure in American literature →
religion	Calvinism → Protestantism →
residence	Amherst, Massachusetts, United States →
sibling	Lavinia Norcross Dickinson → William Austin Dickinson →

Referenced by (31)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
A Bird came down the Walk → Because I could not stop for Death → Hope is the thing with feathers → I cannot live with You → I died for Beauty—but was scarce → I felt a Funeral, in my Brain → I heard a Fly buzz—when I died → I like to see it lap the Miles → I taste a liquor never brewed → There’s a certain Slant of light → This World is not Conclusion → Wild nights—Wild nights! →	author
Because I could not stop for Death → Hope is the thing with feathers → I like to see it lap the Miles →	writtenBy
This World is not Conclusion →	createdBy
I taste a liquor never brewed →	creator
Emily Dickinson ("Dickinson") →	familyName
Emily Dickinson ("Emily Elizabeth Dickinson") →	fullName
Mount Holyoke College →	hasNotableAlumni
American literature →	hasNotableAuthor
Amherst, Massachusetts →	hasNotableResident
William Austin Dickinson ("Emily Dickinson, poet") →	hasRelativeWithOccupation
Elizabeth Barrett Browning →	influenced
Emily Dickinson ("Emily Norcross Dickinson") →	mother
American Romanticism →	notableAuthor
American Renaissance →	notableFigure
Lavinia Norcross Dickinson ("Emily Norcross Dickinson") →	parent
This World is not Conclusion ("Emily Dickinson's lyric corpus") →	partOf
Hailee Steinfeld ("Emily Dickinson in Dickinson") →	portrayed
Edward Dickinson ("Emily Norcross Dickinson") →	spouse