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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
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Poetry: First Lines
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Born August 6, 1934 • New York City • New York
Died October 25, 2020 (aged 86) • San Francisco • California
Founder Amiri Baraka • “Floating Bear”
Notable Works “22 Death Poems” • “Dinners and Nightmares” • “Earthsong: Poems 1957-1959” • “Freddie Poems” • “Memoirs of a Beatnik” • “Pieces of a Song” • “Poems for Freddie” • “Recollections of My Life as a Woman: The New York Years” • “The Book of Hours” • “The New Handbook of Heaven” • “This Kind of Bird Flies Backward” • “Zipcode”
Movement / Style Beat movement
Bunner, Henry Cuyler
Henry Cuyler Bunner
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Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker
American author
Harte
Bret Harte
American writer
Jeannette Leonard Gilder
American editor and writer
Julia Ward Howe
Julia Ward Howe
American writer
T.S. Eliot, 1955
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
American author
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
American author
Rita Dove
Rita Dove
American author
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
American poet
August Wilson
August Wilson
American dramatist
Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
American author and social reformer
Wallace Shawn
Wallace Shawn
American playwright and actor
Doctorow, E.L.
E.L. Doctorow
American author
Kay Boyle
American author
John Jay Chapman.
John Jay Chapman
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Horace L. Gold
American editor and author
Ana Castillo
Ana Castillo
American poet and author
Mariana Alley Griswold Van Rensselaer
American writer and critic

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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
Famous Poets and Poetic Form
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
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
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
A Study of Poetry