Emily dickinson and gwendolyn brooks were born within the same decade. one year apart. during the american civil war. in different centuries.

Emily Dickinson and Gwendolyn Brooks were born in different centuries.

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Emily Dickinson was born on December 10, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts. She was an American poet, whose passionate poetry has placed her in the small pantheon of fundamental American poets along with Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman.

Gwendolyn Brooks was born on June 7, 1917 in Topeka, Kansas. She was an American poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1950 for her work Annie Allen.

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