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A Wikipedian Presents: "My Emily"

A Tribute of Poetess "ED"

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 File:Log Cabin BAH.jpg|ED’s humble birthplace: born in Amherst, MA on the then widely observed “Emily Dickinson Day” December 10, 1830 (5 lbs. 3 oz.) File:Rejlander, 1874, Street Urchins.jpg|ED and older brother Austin begging on the streets of Amherst, circa 1836. File:La Monomane de l'envie.jpg|ED's mother: The poet remarked "she does not care for thought." File:LONDONAFTERMIDNIGHT 00444693 1079x1353 092220061645.jpg|ED's father: Their relationship was, at best, strained. File:Margaret O'Brien in Journey for Margaret trailer 3.jpg|ED's kid sister Lavinia. Dubbed “the wise one’ 'Vinnie’ preserved ED’s poems for posterity against her wishes, profiting handsomely. File:Tyrone Power by Bob Beerman, 1953.jpg|thumb|ED's brother Austin, her "best beau" despite his depravities. File:A. Conan Doyle-Pies Baskerville’ów okładka cut.jpg|"A dog—as large as myself..." ED's beloved hound Carlo (1849-1866). File:McMillan Cabin Original Site.jpg|While ED’s brother Austin attended Yale, ED received only a rudimentary education at Amherst Academy, a notorious “"blab school". File:Southworth and Hawes - Lola Montez (1) (Zeno Fotografie).jpg|ED at the height of her fame. Circa 1870. (The authenticity of this image as ED has been questioned). File:Mabel Loomis Todd 1883.jpg|thumb|Mabel Loomis Todd, Austin's companion. She compiled the poet’s oeuvre and cheerfully corrected its numerous syntactical errors. File:Col. T. W. Higginson, commander of the 1st SC Volunteers (the first African American regiment)) - W. Notman LCCN2010645144.jpg| The wicked literary critic who wantonly blocked ED’s efforts to publish her tattle-tale memoir “Emily Knows a Thing or Two” (1885). File:Olivia de Havilland as Melanie Hamilton in Gone With the Wind trailer cropped.jpg|Famed Hollywood film star Olivia de Havilland portrayed ED in the 1939 M-G-M biopic and box office flop “Gone with the Iambic Tetrameter” File:Dolichonyx oryzivorus 1876.jpg|ED's fulsome poetic praise for Bobolinks set off a rage for its feathers which nearly led to the bird’s extinction. File:Zombies NightoftheLivingDead.jpg|"It was not Death, for I stood up, / And all the Dead, lie down” The poem that inspired George A.Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968), File:Daguerrotype of Susan Dickinson with Frame.jpg|The exact nature of ED’s intimate relationship with her sister-in-law Susan Gilbert Dickinson...SHALL NEVER BE KNOWN! File:A woman sits drinking as a man sleeps with his head on the t Wellcome V0019516.jpg|"The Ditch is Dear/to the Drunken man..." reminds us of the poet’s desperate struggle with alcoholism. File:Mark Twain photo portrait, Feb 7, 1871, cropped Repair.jpg|“Because I could not tarry for Death” was the original fair copy version. Author Samuel Clemens called it a grave "literary offence." File:A&TLincoln.jpg|Abraham Lincoln frequently read ED’s poetry out loud to his children. File:Carl Van Vechten - William Faulkner (greyscale and cropped).jpg|William Faulkner’s acclaimed biography of ED entitled A Rose For Emily (1930). Though controversial, it represents perhaps the most accurate portrait of the eccentric poet yet published. File:Patsy-Cline-Coal-Miners-Daugh-466342.jpg|Patsy Cline’s "Walkin' After Midnight” is said to be inspired by ED’s notorious nocturnal escapades in the “rough” section of Amherst. File:John Everett Millais - Ophelia - Google Art Project.jpg|ED’s obsessive preoccupation with death is widely praised by necrophiliacs. File:James Dean - Julie Harris.jpg|thumb|“When a Girl, I had a friend, who taught me Immortality-but venturing too near, himself, he never returned.” ED impersonator James Dean. File:Rooney-Garland-ebay-1938.jpg| Judy Garland as Emily and Mickey Rooney as Austin in the 1942 Columbia Pictures screwball comedy The The Dickinsons of Amherst. File:Lee Harvey Oswald with rifle, taken in Oswald's back yard, Neely Street, Dallas Texas, March 1963, CE133A.jpg|You probably figured out that this is a “fixed photo” of the 30-year-old poet. Why? The Mannlicher-Carcano bolt-action rifle was not manufactured in her lifetime! Nice detective work. File:Examination of a Witch - Tompkins Matteson.jpg|thumb|ED’s great-great-aunt Hestor was a bold feminist martyr at New England’s McCarthyite “Witch Trials”. File:James Buchanan - post presidency.jpg| ED served briefly as Poet Laureate during the James Buchanan administration (1857-1861). She had a loathing for Buchanan, characterizing him as “ Pink—small—and punctual...” File:Goya-Guerra (07).jpg|A rarely published etching depicting ED reloading a cannon at the bloody Battle of Amherst (1862) during the American Civil War. Que valor! File:Morocco (film) 1930. Josef von Sternberg, director. Marlene Dietrich with top hat.jpg|thumb|Since her death in 1922 (age 92), ED has had many impersonators. Pictured here is, Marlene Dietrich, in Morocco (1930) File:William W. Cooke's "Come quick" message to Frederick Benteen, Battle of the Little Bighorn, June 25, 1876.jpg|Thought to be ED’s final poem, entitled “Come on...be quick” composed just minutes before her death. Literary critics have puzzled over this apparent double entendre. File:Walt Whitman 1854.jpg|ED plagiarized freely from poet Walt Whitman’s  Leaves of Grass (1855), a work she privately regarded as “disgraceful.” File:Red DX Surrey.jpg|thumb|“The carriage held but just ourselves /and immortality.” A replica carriage (styled after an 1846 model landau) is currently displayed at the Smithsonian Institution’s “Curious Artifacts of Poetry" exhibit. File:Heksenverbranding uit Germania van Johannes Scherr.jpg|I’d harass God!. Such blasphemous verse has led biographers to question ED’s Christian piety. Was she privately a “godless atheist”? Critics caution: Let the Mystery Be. File:J.P. Morgan LCCN2002725431.jpg| "Poetry is mysterious, but the poet, when all is said and done, is not much more mysterious than a banker." — Poet and essayist Allen Tate from New England Culture and Emily Dickinson (1932). 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