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 * She did not let other writers influence her style
 *  Used her knowledge of the Bible, classical myths, and Shakespeare for allusions and references in her poetry
 *  She also used contemporary popular church hymns, transforming their standard rhythms into free-form hymn meters
 * Dickinson neither completed many poems nor prepared them for publication.
 * Wrote nearly 2,000 poems in her lifetime; only a dozen of which were published anonymously during her lifetime--were unknown except to a small numbers of friends and relatives.
 * Dickinson was not recognized as a major poet until the twentieth century, when modern readers ranked her as a major new voice because she was not like any other 19th century poet in the United States
 * Wrote drafts on scraps of paper, grocery lists, and the backs of recipes and used envelopes
 * Today, Dickinson is regarded as one of America's greatest poets.

**Emily Dickinson's Works**
//Bolts of Melody: New Poems of Emily Dickinson// (1945) //Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's Poems// (1962) //Further Poems of Emily Dickinson: Withheld from Publication by Her Sister Lavinia// (1929) //Poems by Emily Dickinson// (1890) //Poems: Second Series// (1891) //Poems: Third Series// (1896) //The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson// (1924) //The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson// (1960) //The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime// (1914) //Unpublished Poems of Emily Dickinson// (1935)

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