Guido Gozzano

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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).

World Poetry Day

9 American Countercultural Books

Close up of books. Stack of books, pile of books, literature, reading. Homepage 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society

12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

9 Obscure Literary Terms

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

Periods of American Literature

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Is Australia an Island?

Close up of periodic table, focus on nickel, copper, zinc, palladium, silver, cadmium

When Was the Periodic Table Invented?

airplane in flight (plane, aircraft, flying)

7 Puzzling Plane Disappearances

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

12 Greek Gods and Goddesses

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

New Seven Wonders of the World

Panoramic view at sunrise of moai, Ahu Tongariki, Easter Island (Rapa Nui), Chile

6 Lost Civilizations

Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution

The Rise of the Machines: Pros and Cons of the Industrial Revolution

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Born	December 19, 1883 • Turin • Italy
Died	August 9, 1916 (aged 32) • Turin • Italy
Notable Works	“The Colloquies”
Movement / Style	crepuscolarismo

Marino Moretti

Italian poet

Michelangelo

Italian artist

Dante

Italian poet

Petrarch

Italian poet

Giovanni Boccaccio

Italian poet and scholar

Giordano Bruno

Italian philosopher

Luigi Pirandello

Italian author

Leo XIII

pope

Torquato Tasso

Italian poet

Ariosto, woodcut after a drawing by Titian from the third edition of Orlando furioso, 1532.

Ludovico Ariosto

Italian author

Gabriele D’Annunzio

Italian writer and political leader

Poliziano

Italian poet and humanist

Pietro Metastasio

Italian poet

Giacomo Leopardi

Italian poet and philosopher

Alessandro Manzoni

Italian author

Tommaso Campanella

Italian philosopher and poet

Cesare Pavese

Italian author

Eugenio Montale

Italian author

Foscolo, detail of an oil painting by François-Xavier Fabre, 1818; in the Gallery of Modern Art, Florence

Ugo Foscolo

Italian writer

Gabriele Rossetti

Italian scholar

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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

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

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

A Study of Poetry

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