The genealogy company Ancestry has made a report via Today on NBC that Taylor Swift and well-known poet Emily Dickinson are related.
Last March 4, Ancestry revealed that “Swift and Dickinson both descend from a 17th-century English immigrant (Swift’s ninth great-grandfather and Dickinson’s sixth great-grandfather who was an early settler of Windsor, Connecticut).”
“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.”
The poet and the singer are sixth cousins, three times removed. Dickinson was born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, and is known to be one of the most important figures in American poetry. Her poems were published anonymously when she was still alive.
The singer’s upcoming album, which is entitled “The Tortured Poets Department, is set for release on April 19.
In 2022, she referred to the 19th-century poet while accepting her award for songwriter-artist of the decade 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 int the Quill genre,” she said onstage.
Fans had their speculations that the singer’s ninth studio album, Evermore, was inspired by Dickinson. The release of the said album was on December 10, 2020 which was the same day as the poet’s birthday. The title of the record also references the last word in the poem she created called “One Sister Have I in Our House.”
The last line from that poem reads, “From out the wide night’s numbers — Sue forevermore!”
Swift announced her upcoming album The Tortured Poets Department during her acceptance speech at Grammys 2024 last month.
Since then, the pop star has revealed at the Singapore leg of her Eras Tour that there would be several versions of her new album and named the bonus track for the final edition entitled “The Black Dog.”
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