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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
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
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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
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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”
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22 Questions About Time and Timekeeping Answered
Aphrodite. Greek mythology. Sculpture. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.
12 Greek Gods and Goddesses
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Just How Many Oceans Are There?
African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.
Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement
World Data Locator Map: Australia
Is Australia an Island?
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7 Puzzling Plane Disappearances
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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Also Known As Michael Madhusudan Dutta
Born January 25, 1824 • India
Died June 29, 1873 (aged 49) • Kolkata • India
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Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet
Kalidasa
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Nissim Ezekiel
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Harishchandra
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Ashvaghosha
Indian philosopher and poet
Bhavabhuti
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Utpal Dutt
Indian director
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
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Girish Karnad
Indian author, actor, and film director
Farkas Bolyai
Hungarian mathematician and writer
Iancu Văcărescu
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
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Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes
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Jean Racine
Jean Racine
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D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
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Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
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Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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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