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F.R. Leavis
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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
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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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Also Known As Frank Raymond Leavis
Born July 14, 1895 • Cambridge • England
Died April 14, 1978 (aged 82) • Cambridge • England
Founder “Scrutiny”
Notable Works “New Bearings in English Poetry” • “The Great Tradition”
C. Day-Lewis, 1968.
C. Day-Lewis
British poet
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
Chesterton, G.K.
G.K. Chesterton
British author
Robert Graves
British writer
Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
William Empson
British critic and poet
I.A. Richards
British critic and poet
John Wain
British critic and writer
Charlotte Lennox, detail of an engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi after a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Charlotte Lennox
British author
Aldington, Richard
Richard Aldington
English author
Quiller-Couch, 1943
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
British writer
David Gascoyne
British poet
Charles Clarke, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Charles Cowden Clarke
English editor and critic
Robert Williams Buchanan
English author
Walter de la Mare, photograph by Mark Gerson.
Walter de la Mare
British author
Sackville-West, Vita
Vita Sackville-West
British writer
Master of the macabre
Edgar Allan Poe
American writer
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author

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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