Anne Carson

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Born	June 21, 1950 (age 74) • Toronto • Canada
Notable Works	“Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse” • “Economy of the Unlost” • “Electra” • “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay” • “Nox” • “The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos” • “The Glass Essay”

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Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

Canadian author

Susan Musgrave

American-born author

Rex Warner

British writer

Poet Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

Irish poet

Lisa Robertson

Canadian poet and essayist

Anne Michaels

Canadian poet and novelist

Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje

Canadian writer

Thomas King

American-born Canadian writer and photographer

Sue Goyette

Canadian poet and novelist

Davies, Robertson

Robertson Davies

Canadian author

Al Purdy

Canadian author

Mordecai Richler.

Mordecai Richler

Canadian novelist

Margaret Avison

Canadian poet

Isabella Valancy Crawford, lithograph

Isabella Valancy Crawford

Canadian poet

Earle Birney

Canadian writer and educator

James Crerar Reaney

Canadian writer

John Glassco

Canadian author

Robert Charbonneau

Canadian writer

Margaret Laurence

Canadian writer

William Kirby.

William Kirby

Canadian writer

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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

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry

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

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