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The poet Emily Dickinson rarely left her home after her mid-thirties, and saw few people aside from her father. When visitors came, she was apt to disappear into her room, and those who wished to speak with her did so through a closed door. Rather than interact with neighborhood children, she would send down baskets of gingerbread from her second story window. In 1874, when she was forty-four, her father passed away. The funeral was held in the front room of their home; she did not attend, but listened from her upstairs bedroom. During these years she created some of the most beautiful lyric poetry ever written in America.In the mid-1860s, around the same time as Dickinson?s growing seclusion, the painter/poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti was living alone in Cheyne Walk, London, where he surrounded himself with peacocks, wombats, kangaroos and other exotic pets. He began to venture out only at night, and also held seances in which he tried to communicate with his dead wife. He began to
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