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A Study of Poetry
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Famous Poets and Poetic Form
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Poetry: First Lines
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Born September 7, 1867 • Portugal
Died 1926 (aged 58) • Portugal
Notable Works “China” • “Clépsidra”
Movement / Style Symbolism
António Feliciano de Castilho
António Feliciano de Castilho
Portuguese poet and translator
Pedro António Correia Garção
Portuguese poet
Garcia de Resende
Portuguese poet
Manuel Ferreira
Portuguese author
Miguel Torga
Portuguese poet and diarist
Tomaz Vieira da Cruz
Portuguese poet, musician and journalist
Mário de Sá-Carneiro
Portuguese author
Pascoaes, Teixeira de
Teixeira de Pascoaes
Portuguese poet-philosopher
Eugénio de Castro
Portuguese poet
Jorge Rebelo
Mozambican poet, lawyer, and journalist
Jorge Barbosa
Cabo Verdean poet
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, portrait by an unknown artist.
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov
Russian author
Jules Laforgue
Jules Laforgue
French poet
Arthur Symons, tempera painting by R.H. Sauter, 1935; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Arthur Symons
English poet and critic
Einar Benediktsson
Icelandic poet
Gustave Kahn, oil painting by Roger Casse, 1931; in a private collection
Gustave Kahn
French poet
Luís de Camões
Luís de Camões
Portuguese poet
Gil Vicente
Portuguese dramatist
Alexandre Herculano
Portuguese historian
Pessoa, Fernando
Fernando Pessoa
Portuguese poet

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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