8 美国文学史Emily Dickinson.pptVIP

Lecture Eight Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) Emily’s Life Experiences 1830: Amherst, Massachusetts 1847-1848: Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. early 1850s: began writing. 1886: kidney disorder 1890 : 1st selection of her poems 1955 : a complete collection of her poems appeared. Several Men in her Life Her father Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a poetry critic for The Atlantic Monthly Reverend Charles Wadsworth, toward whom Dickinson might possess a deep love passion and wrote a total of 366 poems within a single year after he left for California. The third was Benjamin Newton, a law student i