Emily Dickinson Research Paper

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Not every poet was a guy there was also females like Emily Dickinson. She was born on Dec. 10, 1830, in Amherst, Massachusetts. She attended mount Holyoke female seminary in south Hedley, but only for a year throughout her life she left her home and she found people that in packed her life on her poetry. She started by the Reverend Charles Wadsworth who she first met on her trip to Philadelphia. In 1860 she left her trip to go visit her home. By the 1860 Dickinson lived in almost complete isolation from the outside world.

In 1817, henry David Thoreau was born in concord, Massachusetts. He was introduced to the country style at a young age and the first time in contact with the natural world. The natural world sparked his lifelong fascination. Although his family lived in relative poverty, subsisting on the income from their small pencil-making business, Thoreau was able to attend Harvard, where he gained an early reputation as an individualist. In 1837 he graduated and he assisted his father with the family business. He worked there for several years. In 1862 Thoreau died in his native concord.
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He liked to read book that took him to foreign places. After he graduated from Bowdoin College. After college Longfellow started to study modern languages in Europe for 3 years.in 1831 he married Mary Storer potter in Portland.in 1835 his life was shaken when his wife died from a miscarriage. In 1836 Longfellow took a teaching poison at Harvard. Three years later he published his first collection of poems. On March 24 1882 was the last time that Longfellow took his last

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