Carl Spitteler

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poem. A poet in a Heian period kimono writes Japanese poetry during the Kamo Kyokusui No En Ancient Festival at Jonan-gu shrine on April 29, 2013 in Kyoto, Japan. Festival of Kyokusui-no Utage orignated in 1,182, party Heian era (794-1192).

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Aphrodite. Greek mythology. Sculpture. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.

12 Greek Gods and Goddesses

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.

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Born	April 24, 1845 • Liestal • Switzerland
Died	December 29, 1924 (aged 79) • Lucerne • Switzerland
Awards And Honors	Nobel Prize
Notable Works	“Conrad der Leutnant” • “Der olympische Frühling” • “Extramundana” • “Imago” • “Laughing Truths” • “Meine frühesten Erlebnisse” • “Prometheus der Dulder” • “Prometheus und Epimetheus” • “Two Little Misogynists” • “Unser Schweizer Standpunkt”

Doris Lessing

British writer

Gerhart Hauptmann

Gerhart Hauptmann

German writer

Paul Ernst

Paul Ernst

German writer

Thomas Mann

Thomas Mann

German author

Luigi Pirandello

Luigi Pirandello

Italian author

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

British writer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Isaac Bashevis Singer

American author

Günter Grass

Günter Grass

German writer

Bunin

Ivan Bunin

Russian author

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

French author

Herta Müller, 2009.

Herta Müller

Romanian-born German writer

Johannes V. Jensen

Danish author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Jakob Schaffner

Swiss writer

T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

American author

Albert Camus

Albert Camus

French author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn

Russian author

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson

Norwegian author

Olga Tokarczuk

Olga Tokarczuk

Polish author

Quiz

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:

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

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