Today in History

May 15, 1886
Not Nobody
On May 15, 1886 Emily Dickinson dies at the age of 55. Dickinson's chief physician gives the cause of death as Bright's disease, which she had suffered from for the last two and a half years of her life. Of the reclusive poet's 1,800 poems, those focusing on the themes of life and death are unusual for their period. They contain short lines, half rhyme and irregular capitalization and punctuation.



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