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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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Chapter 4 pg 42 - Chapter header of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Published in 1884 by The American Publishing Company

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The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)

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Also Known As	Edmund Boulton
Born	1575?
Died	1633?
Notable Works	“Englands Helicon”

Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

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Hilaire Belloc

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Grace Aguilar

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Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Tobias Smollett

Scottish novelist

A.L. Rowse

British historian and writer

William Shakespeare

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John Milton

English poet

Samuel Johnson

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William Blake

British writer and artist

Geoffrey Chaucer

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D.H. Lawrence

English writer

George Meredith

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Edmund Spenser

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John Donne

English poet

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

Alexander Pope

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Lord Byron

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David Garrick

English actor, poet, and producer

William Wordsworth

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Edward Gibbon

British historian

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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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Temple ruins of columns and statures at Karnak, Egypt (Egyptian architecture; Egyptian archaelogy; Egyptian history)

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

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