Emily Elizabeth Dickinson 1830-1886 "Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough." "If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain." Emily Dickinson was a compassionate, intelligent, and intuitive woman, characteristics all shown through her poetry, letters and epigrams written in her lifetime. Emily, Belle of Amherst, whose life formed the transcendental bridge to modern American poetry, is admired greatly for her contributions to literature and …showed first 75 words of 1589 total…

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