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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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Mona Lisa, oil on wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1503-06; in the Louvre, Paris, France. 77 x 53 cm.

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Born	May 12, 1878 • Como • Italy
Died	July 21, 1960 (aged 82) • Rome • Italy
Founder	“900”
Notable Works	“Introduzioni e discorsi” • “La guardia alla luna” • “L’amante fedele”
Subjects Of Study	Italian literature

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Curzio Malaparte

Italian writer

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

Italian-French author

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian author

Luigi Pirandello

Italian author

Gabriele D’Annunzio

Italian writer and political leader

Alessandro Manzoni

Italian author

Ignazio Silone

Italian author

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

Ugo Foscolo

Italian writer

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

Mario Luzi

Italian poet and literary critic

Giovanni Papini

Italian author

Cesare Pavese

Italian author

Ennio Flaiano

Italian author and critic

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

Carlos Fuentes

Mexican writer and diplomat

François Mauriac

French author

Jeannette Leonard Gilder

American editor and writer

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

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