Emily Dickinson

Known for

Short, slant-rhymed lyric poems on death, nature and the inner self

Biography

American poet who lived most of her life in seclusion in Amherst, Massachusetts, and whose nearly 1,800 poems were almost all published only after her death.

A well-known line

"Hope is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul."

Major works

• Because I Could Not Stop for Death
• Hope Is the Thing with Feathers