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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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:
Poetry: First Lines
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World Poetry Day
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Easter Procession of Maria Santisima del Sacromonte in Granada, Spain. This statue is known as Virgen de los Gitanos or The Virgin of the Gypsies.
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10 of the World’s Most Dangerous Fish
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Why Is Ireland Two Countries?
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Also Known As George William Russell
Born April 10, 1867 • Lurgan • Northern Ireland
Died July 17, 1935 (aged 68) • Bournemouth • England
Movement / Style Irish literary renaissance
Subjects Of Study mysticism

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William Butler Yeats, c. 1915.
William Butler Yeats
Irish author and poet
Lennox Robinson
Irish playwright
Colum, Padraic
Padraic Colum
Irish poet
John Banim
Irish author
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish author and clergyman
James Joyce
James Joyce
Irish author
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
Oliver Goldsmith, oil painting from the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Oliver Goldsmith
Anglo-Irish author
Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín
Irish author
Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon
Northern Irish poet
Poet Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet
Thomas Kinsella
Irish poet
Thomas Moore, detail of an oil painting by Sir Martin Archer Shee, 1818; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Thomas Moore
Irish author and composer
Eavan Boland
Irish poet and literary critic
Paul Durcan
Irish poet
Lever, Charles James
Charles James Lever
British author
Mangan, James Clarence
James Clarence Mangan
Irish writer
Derek Mahon
Northern Irish poet and translator
Henry Brooke, engraving by C. Pye after a drawing by J. Thurston from a portrait by the subject's nephew Henry Brooke
Henry Brooke
Irish author
Louis MacNeice
British poet

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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