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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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Born December 11, 1906 • Dakar • Senegal
Died November 25, 1989 (aged 82) • Dakar • Senegal
Movement / Style Negritude
Subjects Of Study Wolof • folklore
Léopold Senghor
Léopold Senghor
president of Senegal
David Diop
Senegalese author
Bernard Binlin Dadié
Ivorian author
Sheikh Hamidou Kane
Senegalese author
Ousmane Socé
Senegalese writer and politician
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
French author
Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
French critic
Paul Verlaine, detail from Un Coin de table, oil painting by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1872; in the Louvre, Paris.
Paul Verlaine
French poet
François Mauriac
François Mauriac
French author
Louise Bogan, 1967
Louise Bogan
American poet and literary critic
Henri Michaux
French painter and poet
Suzanne Lilar
Belgian author
Hervé Bazin, 1961
Hervé Bazin
French author
Alfred de Musset
French author
Louis-Honoré Fréchette.
Louis-Honoré Fréchette
Canadian poet
Christian Dotremont
Belgian author
Conrad Detrez
Belgian author
Marie Gevers
Belgian writer
Aimé Césaire
Aimé Césaire
Martinican author and politician
Tchicaya U Tam’si
Congolese 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