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Emily Dickinson
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Biography
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her unusual, innovative style was seen as a deficiency by many editors of her time
she has the reputation of having lived the life of a recluse ("Einsiedlerin") - she was far from being alienated or detached from her social - let alone cultural - surroundings and kept up with the political, literary and cultural affairs
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Dickinson is today regarded as one of the two most innovative and ground–breaking voices in 19th century in America
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her writing style
turned into an important precursor of modernist / contemporary poetry through:
- short, condensed and elliptical style
- idiosyncratic punctation and syntax
- ambiguity and openness