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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
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Poetry: First Lines
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Also Known As Robert Menzies McAlmon
Born March 9, 1896 • Kansas
Died February 2, 1956 (aged 59) • California
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Notable Works “A Hasty Bunch” • “Being Geniuses Together, 1920–1930” • “Village: As It Happened Through a Fifteen Year Period”
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William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams
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William Faulkner
William Faulkner
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Pound, Ezra
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Master of the macabre
Edgar Allan Poe
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Theodore Dreiser
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Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
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Sylvia Plath
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Alice Walker
Alice Walker
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Percival Everett
Percival Everett
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Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry
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John G. Neihardt
John G. Neihardt
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Stephen Crane
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Sherman Alexie
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Edmund Wilson
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Paul Auster
Paul Auster
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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
A Study of Poetry