Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) was an American poet known for her enigmatic and introspective verse. Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, Dickinson led a reclusive life, rarely venturing beyond her family home. Despite this, she produced nearly 1,800 poems, exploring themes of nature, death, love, and spirituality. Dickinson's unconventional punctuation, syntax, and capitalization challenged poetic conventions of her time, making her work distinctively modern. While she published only a handful of poems during her lifetime, her posthumous fame grew rapidly, and she is now considered one of the greatest poets in American literature, admired for her profound insight and lyrical expression.