In a Library by Emily Dickinson
Channel: Poemotopia
Date: 2023-03-09

"In a Library" is a classic of Emily Dickinson, written around 1862 and published in 1890 in her first collection, Poems, edited by two of her friends M. L. Todd and T. W. Higginson.

Dickinson was born on 10th December 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. From her childhood, she was very studious and bright. She took a keen interest in writing poetry and works of literary appreciation.

Most of Emily Dickinson's poems are stylistically novel and marvelous. Her style of putting her thoughts on a piece of paper is very different from her contemporary poets. She spent most of her life in solitude, so the main themes one can encounter in her poems are loneliness and death.

Dickinson's "In a library" is a poem about the timelessness of old books and the importance of the greatest source of knowledge, a library. In this poem, Dickinson expresses her love for the old books in a library.