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Emily Dickinson
Poet Emily Dickinson is one of American poetry's most singular and influential voices.
Only 10 of Emily Dickinson’s nearly 1,800 poems are known to have been published during her lifetime. While she was a prolific writer who shared hundreds of her works with friends and correspondents, she kept the vast majority of her poetry private.12