Who is Emily Dickinson from the nonfiction book, How to Read and Why?

Emily Dickinson is an American poet who lived from 1835 to 1886 in Amherst, Massachusetts. She was famously reclusive, but her poems are commanding in their assertion of a self that can create its own compensations for what it has lost. Bloom finds Dickinson uncategorizable, one of the few authors whose work is so strong and original that it cannot be said to be derived from anyone else's.