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Born August 23, 1868 • Kansas
Died March 5, 1950 (aged 81) • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Notable Works “Epigrams from the Greek Anthology” • “Spoon River Anthology”
Movement / Style Chicago literary renaissance

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June Jordan.
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Carl Sandburg.
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H.D.
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Jack Kerouac
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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
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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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