1. EMILY DICKINSON ( )
Born- 10th Dec Amherst, Massachusetts
Puritan family- father congressman- went Washington D.C.
Had private tutors- never married
Love poems showed her love
Samuel Bowles- tutor
Rev. Charles Wadsworth- church minister
Rev. Thomas Wentworth Higginson- literary advisor

2. Themes- Love, Nature, God Nun of American Poetry 2
Themes- Love, Nature, God
Nun of American Poetry
“The Poems of Emily Dickinson”- published in 1955

3. SUCCESS IS COUNTED SWEETEST
By those who ne’er succeed
To comprehend a nectar
Required sorest need

4. SUCCESS IS COUNTED SWEETEST
Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag today
Can tell the definition
So clear, of victory

5. SUCCESS IS COUNTED SWEETEST
As he, defeated, dying
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Break, agonized and clear