George Chapman

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George Chapman, engraved portrait by W. Hole from the frontispiece to The Whole Works of Homer

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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).

World Poetry Day

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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Lay, Lie, Lied, Lain: When Do We Use Which?

7 Everyday English Idioms and Where They Come From

Sergeant Stubby or also known as Mascot Stubby. Unofficial mascot dog of the 102nd Infantry Regiment of the United States with the 26th (Yankee) Division in World War I. War dog. Possibly a Boston terrier - also sometimes described as a Boston bull terrier

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Shah Jahan. Taj Mahal. Mughal architecture. Emperor Shah Jahan fifth Mughal Emperor (reigned 1628-1658) India, Himachal Pradesh, Basohli or Jammu and Kashmir, Mankot, circa 1690 Drawings; Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper (see notes)

6 Important Mughal Emperors

Groups of depositors in front of the closed American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932. Great Depression run on bank crowd

Causes of the Great Depression

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What is Holy Week?

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The Fastest Animals on Earth

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Will Light-Speed Space Travel Ever Be Possible?

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10 of the World’s Most Dangerous Fish

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.)

7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

George Chapman: Facts & Related Content

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Born	1559? • England
Died	May 12, 1634 • London • England
Notable Works	“Bussy d’Ambois” • “Eastward Ho” • “Euthymiae Raptus; or the Teares of Peace” • “Iliad” • “Odyssey”
Movement / Style	Jacobean age

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Elijah Fenton

British poet

Alexander Pope

English author

Anthony Munday

English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator

John Marston

British dramatist

H.D.

American poet

Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye

Ethiopian author

Mihály Babits

Hungarian author

Samuel Johnson

English author

Christopher Marlowe

English writer

William Congreve

English dramatist

Thomas Lodge

English writer

Nicholas Udall

English writer

Thomas Shadwell

English author

Eric Bentley

American critic, translator, and stage director

Edmund Gosse, detail of an oil painting by John Singer Sargent, 1886; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Sir Edmund Gosse

British critic and writer

Sir Charles Sedley, 4th Baronet

English writer

Laurence Binyon

English scholar and poet

Anne Ridler

British writer

Elizabeth Carter

British author

Thomas May

English scholar

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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

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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The Literary World

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry

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