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Salvatore Quasimodo
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Born August 20, 1901 • Modica • Italy
Died June 14, 1968 (aged 66) • Naples • Italy
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1959)
Notable Works “Giorno dopo giorno” • “Tartuffe”
Movement / Style Hermeticism

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T.S. Eliot, 1955
T.S. Eliot
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Joost van den Vondel
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Lucius Livius Andronicus
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Poliziano
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Cesare Pavese
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Elio Vittorini
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Giambattista Giraldi
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa
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Lodovico Castelvetro
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William Butler Yeats, c. 1915.
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Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
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Octavio Paz.
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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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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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Portrait of Plato (ca. 428- ca. 348 BC), Ancient Greek philosopher.
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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
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