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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:
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Born September 5, 1733 • Germany
Died January 20, 1813 (aged 79) • Weimar • Germany
Founder “Der teutsche Merkur”
Notable Works “Oberon” • “The History of Agathon”

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Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Ludwig Tieck
German writer
Mihály Babits
Hungarian author
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt
German writer and translator
Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye
Ethiopian author
Gregorio Martínez Sierra
Spanish dramatist
Wolf Heinrich, count von Baudissin
German translator
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
Tsubouchi Shōyō
Japanese author
Jan Kasprowicz
Polish writer
Otto Ludwig
German writer
Johann Elias Schlegel
German author and critic
Charlotte Endymion Porter
American editor
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer
Vajiravudh
Vajiravudh
king of Siam
Robert Armin
English actor
Nahum Tate
English writer
Eduard Devrient
German actor
Helen Archibald Clarke
American writer and editor
Lamb, Mary Ann; Lamb, Charles
Charles Lamb
British 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