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Born May 17, 1889 • Monterrey • Mexico
Died December 27, 1959 (aged 70) • Mexico City • Mexico
Subjects Of Study Ancient Greek literature • Golden Age • literature

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Jaime Torres Bodet
Mexican writer and statesman
Octavio Paz.
Octavio Paz
Mexican writer and diplomat
Rosario Castellanos
Mexican writer
Agustín Yáñez
Mexican writer and statesman
Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes
Mexican writer and diplomat
José Emilio Pacheco
Mexican author
Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson
American critic
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
Ezequiel Martínez Estrada
Argentine author
Vasconcelos, José
José Vasconcelos
Mexican educator
Ramón López Velarde
Mexican poet
Augusto de Campos
Brazilian poet and critic
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
T.S. Eliot, 1955
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
American author
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges
Argentine author
James Russell Lowell.
James Russell Lowell
American poet and critic
Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz, c. 1980
Czesław Miłosz
Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
Poetry: First Lines
4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
Famous Poets and Poetic Form
Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry