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Born April 20, 1860 • Leeuwarden • Netherlands
Died May 12, 1930 (aged 70) • The Hague • Netherlands
Hugo Grotius
Hugo Grotius
Dutch statesman and scholar
Hermanus Johannes Aloysius Maria Schaepman
Dutch statesman
Huygens, Constantijn
Constantijn Huygens
Dutch diplomat and poet
Busken Huet, portrait by an unknown artist
Conrad Busken Huet
Dutch literary critic
William I
William I
stadholder of United Provinces of The Netherlands
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
Johan van Oldenbarnevelt
Dutch statesman
Geert Wilders
Geert Wilders
Dutch politician
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte
Mark Rutte
prime minister of the Netherlands and secretary-general of NATO
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Dutch politician
William I
William I
king of The Netherlands
Silvio Berlusconi and Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
Dutch politician
Vondel, detail of an engraving after a portrait by Joachim Sandrart, 1635
Joost van den Vondel
Dutch writer
Pieter Geyl
Dutch historian
Bernhard, prince of the Netherlands, prince of Lippe-Biesterfeld
prince of the Netherlands
Louis of Nassau, panel portrait by an unknown artist, 1574; in the Orange Nassau Museum, Delft, Neth.
Louis of Nassau
Dutch political leader
Filips van Montmorency, count van Horne
Dutch statesman
Abraham Kuyper
Abraham Kuyper
Dutch theologian and statesman
Jacobus Johannes Pieter Oud
Dutch architect
Cats, Jacob
Jacob Cats
Dutch author
Willem Drees
prime minister of the Netherlands

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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
Famous Poets and Poetic Form
Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry