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Also Known As	Conrad Jean Detrez
Born	April 1, 1937 • Belgium
Died	February 12, 1985 (aged 47) • Paris • France
Notable Works	“A Weed for Burning” • “Ludo” • “Plumes du coq, Les”

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Henry Bauchau

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Christian Dotremont

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Marcel Thiry

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Georges Rodenbach

Belgian poet

Françoise Mallet-Joris

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Henri Michaux

French painter and poet

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Victor Hugo

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Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832

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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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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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