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Baptized July 3, 1683 • England
Died April 5, 1765 • Welwyn Garden City • England
Movement / Style graveyard school
Subjects Of Study literature

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Edward Young, detail of an oil painting by Joseph Highmore; in All Souls College, Oxford
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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