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The poet died in 1886, when she was 55 years old. The immediate cause of death was a stroke. The attending physician attributed this to Bright's disease, but a modern posthumous diagnosis points to severe primary hypertension as the underlying condition.

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Only 10 poems were published during her lifetime

She nearly wrote 900 poems during the Civil war

Her father was a U.S senator

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She introduced the world to a new kind of writing and poetry. Emily wrote odd poems that were different from other people's and she expressed her feelings differently in them. It changed the way people think about things and how they feel about them.

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Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. She was born in Amherst, Massachusetts. She had two siblings; William Austin Dickinson and Lavinia Marcross Dickinson. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry. Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, into a prominent family with strong ties to its community.