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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
Famous Poets and Poetic Form
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
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Bernard Kops: Facts & Related Content

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Born November 28, 1926 • London • England
Died February 25, 2024 (aged 97) • United Kingdom
Notable Works “Awake for Mourning” • “Barricades in West Hampstead” • “Enter Solly Gold” • “Ezra” • “Love, Death, and Other Joys” • “Playing Sinatra” • “Shalom Bomb” • “The Dissent of Dominick Shapiro” • “The Dream of Peter Mann” • “The Hamlet of Stepney Green” • “The Odyssey of Samuel Glass”
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Graham Greene
Graham Greene
British author
Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Peter Redgrove
English poet, novelist, and playwright
Caroline Norton, detail of an oil painting by John Hayter.
Caroline Norton
British writer
Phillpotts, Eden
Eden Phillpotts
British writer
Mervyn Peake
Mervyn Peake
English novelist
Robert Williams Buchanan
English author
Dannie Abse
Welsh poet, playwright, essayist, and novelist
James Joyce
James Joyce
Irish author
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Oliver Goldsmith, oil painting from the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Oliver Goldsmith
Anglo-Irish author
Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
Portrait of dramatist Aphra Behn
Aphra Behn
English author
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, lithograph by François Le Villain after a portrait by Fabian Sarnecki.
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
Polish writer
Dowson, portrait by Charles Conder; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Ernest Dowson
British poet
Nick Joaquin
Filipino author
Ama Ata Aidoo
Ghanaian writer
Henry Brooke, engraving by C. Pye after a drawing by J. Thurston from a portrait by the subject's nephew Henry Brooke
Henry Brooke
Irish author

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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