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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:
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Also Known As Tomas Gösta Tranströmer
Born April 15, 1931 • Stockholm • Sweden
Died March 26, 2015 (aged 83) • Stockholm • Sweden
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize
Notable Works “17 dikter” • “Dikter och prosa 1954-2004” • “Hemligheter på vägen” • “Klanger och spår” • “Minnena ser mig” • “Night Vision” • “The Truth Barrier” • “Stigar” • “Tomas Tranströmer: Selected Poems 1954-1986”

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Pär Lagerkvist
Swedish author
Harry Martinson
Swedish author
Heidenstam
Verner von Heidenstam
Swedish author
Bob Dylan, 1963
Bob Dylan
American musician
Frédéric Mistral, etching, 1864
Frédéric Mistral
French poet
Halldór Laxness
Halldór Laxness
Icelandic writer
Erik Axel Karlfeldt, detail of an oil painting by Carl Larsson, 1918; in Gripsholm Castle, Sweden.
Erik Axel Karlfeldt
Swedish writer
Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Lagerlöf
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Eyvind Johnson
Swedish author
Geijer, detail of an oil painting by J.G. Sandberg, 1828; in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
Erik Gustaf Geijer
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Gustaf Fredrik, Count Gyllenborg
Swedish poet
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
American author
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda
Chilean poet
William Butler Yeats, c. 1915.
William Butler Yeats
Irish author and poet
André Gide, oil painting by P.A. Laurens, 1924; in the National Museum of Modern Art, Paris.
André Gide
French writer
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
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Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
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Jon Fosse
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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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