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Title: A Poet Ahead Of Her Time
Words: 424
Emily was a poet ahead of her time. She was born in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1830. Emily began writing poetry when she was about twenty years of age. Over a decade later, her correspondence with Thomas Wentworth Higginson began. She would send her non-titled poems to him for publication, but he didn't think they were acceptable because they did not follow the standard format like the other writings in her time. While on a trip in Philadelphia, she met Charles Wadsworth, a married minister. Despite his status, she fell in love with him. Wadsworth was transferred to San Fransisco, California around 1860, across the nation away from Miss Dikinson. Emily did not get over this infatuation very easily and never married in her lifetime. It is surmised that from this heartache came he ...
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