Recognized for her experimentation with poetry, Emily Dickinson is considered one of America's greatest poets. Her work was extraordinarily successful even after being published four years after her death in 1890. Eleven editions of Dickinson's work were published in less than two years. Emily Dickenson's personal life, literary influences, and romantic suffering were major inspirations for her poetry. Biographers believe that the secret inspiration of Dickinson's poetry can be discovered by examining her personal life. During the 1860s and 1870s, Dickinson became even more reclusive. She rejected almost all visitors who came to see her and locked herself in her room for days at a time. Later, several people close to Dickinson died in quick succession. These people included her mother, her friend Judge Otis Lord, her young nephew, her close friend Helen Fiske Hunt, and Dr. Charles Wadsworth. Literary influences such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charlotte Bronte, and Benjamin Franklin Newton were another important part of her inspiration. . Emily Dickinson admired the poetry of John Keat...