Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson was an American writer of the mid-19th century. She is famous for her poetry and is considered a major figure in American literature. She was published posthumously. Some of her most famous poems include "Because I could not stop for Death", "I taste a liquor never brewed ", "I’m Nobody! Who are you?", and "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain".

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• Lifetime: 10 December 1830 • 15 May 1886
• Main form: Poetry
• Literary movement: Romanticism and Transcendentalism
• Mid-2026 popularity rank: --

"Hope is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul / And sings the tune without the words / And never stops at all."