John Pepper Clark

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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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Also Known As	J. P. Clark-Bekederemo
Born	April 6, 1935 (age 89) • Nigeria
Founder	“Black Orpheus”
Notable Works	“America, Their America” • “Black Orpheus” • “Ozidi” • “The Raft”
Subjects Of Study	oral literature • poetry • Ijo

Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian author

Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

T.S. Eliot

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

English author

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Matthew Arnold

Matthew Arnold

British critic

Poet John Dryden

John Dryden

British author

Sir Philip Sidney

Sir Philip Sidney

English author and statesman

William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

William Congreve

English dramatist

Algernon Charles Swinburne, watercolour by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1862; in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

English poet

Carol Ann Duffy

Carol Ann Duffy

British poet

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Peter Redgrove

English poet, novelist, and playwright

Anthony Munday

English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator

Massimo Bontempelli

Italian poet

Earle Birney

Canadian writer and educator

Edward Young, detail of an oil painting by Joseph Highmore; in All Souls College, Oxford

Edward Young

English author

Sir J. C. Squire

British journalist and author

Drinkwater, portrait by J.W. Thompson, 1935; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

John Drinkwater

British poet

Robert Williams Buchanan

English author

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

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