Taylor Swift would have a family relationship with one of the most important poets in history – 2024-03-06 12:40:39

An investigation published on the People magazine website indicated that Taylor Swift’s compositional skills in songwriting possibly have a degree of responsibility thanks to an ancestral family member considered by literary critics as one of the most important poets in history.

A few weeks after the official launch of the American singer’s new album, titled “The Tortured Poets Department”, the renowned North American media specialized in entertainment and showbiz assured that Swift would be a distant cousin of none other than Emily Dickinson.

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Familiarity theory

It all lies in the fact that Emily Dickinson, one of the fundamental poets of nineteenth-century literature of the English language, would be Taylor Swift’s sixth cousin with three separations, a discovery that according to People, the singer has known about for many years.

It is worth highlighting his sayings in 2022, when he referred to the 19th century poet when accepting the award for composer and artist of the decade from the International Association of Composers of Nashville: “if my lyrics sound like a letter written by the great-grandmother of Emily Dickinson sewing a lace curtain, that’s me writing in the Quill genre.”

“Swift and Dickinson are descended from a 17th-century English immigrant – Swift’s ninth great-grandfather and Dickinson’s sixth great-grandfather – who settled in Windsor, Connecticut. “Taylor Swift’s ancestors stayed in Connecticut for six generations until his side of the family eventually settled in northwestern Pennsylvania, where they intermarried into the Swift family line,” the publication quotes.

People also highlighted that TODAY published this Monday, March 4, that the genealogy company Ancestry is responsible for said discovery. The new information involving the 34-year-old performer comes after confirmation that her new album will be released on different digital music platforms on April 19.