When did Emily Dickinson start writing poetry?

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Romantic

Emily Dickinson lived from December 10, 1830, to May 15, 1886. Only five of her poems have been authentically dated earlier than 1858. But because of her personality, education, upbringing, and habit of maintaining heavy correspondence with friends, it does not seem like a wild guess to suppose that she was writing poetry long before 1858.

She write more than 1800 poems, of which fewer than a dozen were published during her lifetime.