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Also Known As	Patrick John MacAllister Anderson
Born	August 4, 1915 • England
Died	March 17, 1979 (aged 63) • England • (Anniversary in 3 days)
Notable Works	“Over the Alps: Reflections on Travel and Travel Writing” • “Return to Canada: Selected Poems” • “The Colour as Naked”

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W.H. Auden

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Graham Greene

Graham Greene

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Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje

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Sue Goyette

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Andrew Motion

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Sir Stephen Spender

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Novelist Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark

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Timothy Findley

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Al Purdy

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MacDiarmid

Hugh MacDiarmid

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A.J.M. Smith

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John Glassco

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Dorothy Livesay

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Wilfred Campbell

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Sir Edward Howard Marsh

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Robert W. Service

Robert W. Service

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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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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

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