A word is dead when it is said, some say, I say it just begins to live that day. —“A word is dead .” Emily
Emily Dickinson 1830–86, American poet, b. Amherst, Mass. She is widely considered one of the greatest poets in American literature. Her unique, gemlike lyrics are distillations of profound feeling and original intellect, and they stand outside the mainstream of American literary tradition.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia Pronunciation: d from The American Heritage®
WORKS
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Comprising 597 poems of the Belle of Amherst, whose life of the imagination formed the transcendental bridge to modern American poetry.
Dickinson, Emily, 16384 to 16600
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
WRITINGS ABOUT DICKINSON
“Emily Dickinson ”
Article by Norman Foerster from the Cambridge History of American Literature .
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