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from whom Tom tasted the tragic dreg of slavery. At last, Tom was tortured to death. 7. Emiiy Dicidnson • ifcfelMSSO—1886, ^BicWA) Emily Dickinson was regarded after her death as a chief poet, as great as Whit- man in the turbulent America of the 19th century. She remained single in her whole life, but was profoundly affected by two men Benjamin Newton and Charles Wadsworth. The former introduced her to inspiring book and encouraged her to write and the latter was her dearest earthly friend. After 1862, she began to dress entirely in white and avoided strangers, staying in her house and garden . Her poems are characterized by the abundant use of dashes, and irregular and often idiosyncratic punctuation and capitalization and clear-cut and delicately original imagery, precise diction and fragmentary pattern. Her themes include love , nature , friendship, death, and immortality . Her famou s poems include Because I Could Not Stop for Death ( {13 ^^-^t^ ^^.%ft») and Im Nobody. Who Are You! («%^G^i/h^! -f^^if?)) 8. Henry David Thoreau, (-?^iJ • ^U • 1^,1817—1862,H Si^ -SUgliO His masterpiece was Walden, or Life in the Woods (S^ii?i%,:^^4^J:if3)). PD TOi S£ -k ^ -*- ^ • / • ; , ; . ,^..- - / 9 i—S ^ ^L- ^—I—-^-Av T^ . . . • : ., . . . • . . •.;•,•;„ . •-- ) General Introduction /-© The rise and development of American literary Realism was the product