Édouard Maunick

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poem. A poet in a Heian period kimono writes Japanese poetry during the Kamo Kyokusui No En Ancient Festival at Jonan-gu shrine on April 29, 2013 in Kyoto, Japan. Festival of Kyokusui-no Utage orignated in 1,182, party Heian era (794-1192).

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Battle of the Alamo from "Texas: An Epitome of Texas History from the Filibustering and Revolutionary Eras to the Independence of the Republic, 1897. Texas Revolution, Texas revolt, Texas independence, Texas history.

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Nazi Germany, Nazi SS troops marching with victory standards at the Party Day rally in Nuremberg, Germany, 1933. (Schutzstaffel, Nazi Party, Nurnberg)

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Lusitania sinking, illustration from The War of the Nations (New York), December 31, 1919. World War I, WWI. This image is one of three on the page. (See source file for the other two.)

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Édouard Maunick: Facts & Related Content

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Also Known As	Édouard Joseph Marc Maunick
Born	September 23, 1931 • Mauritius
Died	April 10, 2021 (aged 89) • Paris • France
Notable Works	“Africaines du temps jadis” • “En mémoire du mémorable suivi de Jusju’en terre Yoruba” • “Fusillez-moi” • “Les Manèges de la mer” • “Les Oiseaux du sang” • “Mascaret ou le livre de la mer et de la mort”

Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

French author

Clément Marot, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the Bibliothèque Protestante, Paris.

Clément Marot

French poet

Louise Bogan, 1967

Louise Bogan

American poet and literary critic

Yves Bonnefoy

French author

Quinet, oil painting by Sebastien-Melchior Cornu, 1833; in the Musee Carnavalet, Paris

Edgar Quinet

French historian and poet

Charles-Marie-René Leconte de Lisle

French poet

Jean-Antoine de Baïf.

Jean-Antoine de Baïf

French poet

Bonaventure Des Périers

French author

Tyard, engraving

Pontus de Tyard

French poet

Richard Howard

American author

Belleau, engraving by Radel

Rémy Belleau

French poet

İbrahim Şinasi

Turkish author

Jan Kasprowicz

Polish writer

Pembroke, Mary Herbert, countess of

Mary Herbert, countess of Pembroke

English translator

Chapelain, engraving by Robert Nanteuil, 1655

Jean Chapelain

French author

Florent Chrestien

French author

Flavien Ranaivo

Madagascan poet

Delille, detail of an engraving by Antoine Cardon after a painting by J.-L. Monnier

Jacques Delille

French writer

Jan Andrzej Morsztyn

Polish author and diplomat

Antoni Lange

Polish writer and translator

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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

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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