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What other poets were influenced by Emily Dickinson?

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A definitive list would be very extensive, because she was such an important contributor to American poetry and influenced so many. read more

Stylistically, Emily's poems most resemble the work of Isaac Watts and other prominent dissenting hymn writers. The style of Emily Dickinson's poetry belongs to the 1750's, though some of the technique and subject matter was far in advance of what was normal in the 1850's and 1860's when she was writing). read more

A definitive list would be very extensive, because she was such an important contributor to American poetry and influenced so many. Jorie Graham, Charles Wright, Susan Howe, Anne Sexton, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath are some of the names that immediately come to mind. I am sure there are many, many more. read more

Dickinson's poetry was heavily influenced by the Metaphysical poets of seventeenth-century England, as well as her reading of the Book of Revelation and her upbringing in a Puritan New England town, which encouraged a Calvinist, orthodox, and conservative approach to Christianity. read more

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