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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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Famous Poets and Poetic Form
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Born February 20, 1751 • Germany
Died March 29, 1826 (aged 75) • Heidelberg • Germany
Notable Works “Luise”
Movement / Style Göttinger Hain

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Johann Heinrich Voss, lithograph.
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Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Stolberg-Stolberg, Friedrich Leopold, Graf zu
Friedrich Leopold, Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg
German poet
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
Andrew Lang
British scholar
Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky
Russian poet
Richmond Lattimore
American poet and translator
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Bürger, Gottfried August
Gottfried August Bürger
German poet
Freiligrath, Ferdinand
Ferdinand Freiligrath
German poet
Christian Morgenstern
German poet
Christoph Martin Wieland.
Christoph Martin Wieland
German poet
Wilhelm Müller
German poet
Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt
German writer and translator
portrait of Klabund by Orlik
Klabund
German writer
Knebel, drawing by Johann Schmeller, 1824
Karl Ludwig von Knebel
German poet
Robert Fitzgerald
American poet
Coornhert, Dirck Volckertszoon
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert
Dutch author
Anne Dacier
French scholar and translator
Mihály Babits
Hungarian author
Pindemonte, Ippolito
Ippolito Pindemonte
Italian 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