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Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky
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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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Born August 14, 1865 • St. Petersburg • Russia
Died December 9, 1941 (aged 76) • Paris • France
Notable Works “Khristos i Antikhrist” • “O prichinakh upadka i o novykh techeniyakh sovremennoy russkoy literatury”
Subjects Of Study Dante • Fyodor Dostoyevsky • Jesus • Leo Tolstoy • Nikolay Gogol

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Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Russian poet
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, portrait after an oil painting by I.E. Repin, 1879
Aleksey Konstantinovich, Count Tolstoy
Russian writer
Graham Greene
Graham Greene
British author
Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed
American author
Nick Joaquin
Filipino author
June Jordan.
June Jordan
American author
Stuart Cloete
South African writer
Ivan Turgenev
Ivan Turgenev
Russian author
Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
Russian author
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Russian author
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Russian author
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, portrait by an unknown artist.
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov
Russian author
Peretz Markish
Russian writer
Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, 1935.
Aleksey Nikolayevich, Count Tolstoy
Soviet writer
Nina Berberova
Russian-American writer
Ratushinskaya, Irina Georgiyevna
Irina Georgiyevna Ratushinskaya
Russian poet, essayist and dissident
Mark Aldanov
Russian writer
Mikhail Matveyevich Kheraskov
Russian writer

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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