Taylor Swift is related to real-life tortured poet Emily Dickinson
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Taylor Swift is related to real-life tortured poet Emily Dickinson

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Turns out Taylor Swift’s upcoming album release, “The Tortured Poets Department,” could have a more personal meaning than usual. “Taylor Swift’s ancestors remained in Connecticut for six generations until her part of the family eventually settled in northwestern Pennsylvania, where they married into the Swift family line,” Ancestry told TODAY. Fans also drew parallels to Swift's album title and Dickinson’s poem called “One Sister Have I in Our House,” which includes the word “forevermore.” While discussing the cover of her eighth studio album, “Folklore,” Swift told Entertainment Weekly she had an idea for “this girl sleepwalking through the forest in a nightgown in 1830,” which is the year Dickinson was born. In 2022, Swift referenced the 19th century poet while receiving the Songwriter-Artist of the Decade Award from the Nashville Songwriters Association International: “If my lyrics sound like a letter written by Emily Dickinson’s great-grandmother while sewing a lace curtain, that’s me writing in the Quill genre.”

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