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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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Also Known As Mona Jane Van Duyn
Born May 9, 1921 • Waterloo • Iowa
Died December 2, 2004 (aged 83) • Missouri
Founder “Perspective: A Quarterly of Literature and the Arts”
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize • National Book Award • Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize (1989) • Bollingen Prize (1971)
Notable Works “To See, to Take”

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W.H. Auden
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Wallace Stevens
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William Carlos Williams
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Marianne Moore, 1957, photograph by Imogen Cunningham.
Marianne Moore
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Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
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C.K. Williams
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Conrad Aiken.
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John Berryman
John Berryman
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Philip Levine
Philip Levine
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James Merrill
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Archibald MacLeish
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Howard Nemerov
Howard Nemerov
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Stanley Kunitz, c. 1987
Stanley Kunitz
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Lisel Mueller
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Richard Eberhart
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John Crowe Ransom
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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
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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry