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Archibald MacLeish
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Born May 7, 1892 • Glen Coe • Illinois
Died April 20, 1982 (aged 89) • Boston • Massachusetts
Awards And Honors National Book Award • Pulitzer Prize • Tony Awards (1959) • Bollingen Prize (1952)
Notable Works “J.B.”

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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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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