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Also Known As Kuo Mo-jo • Guo Kaizhen
Born November 1892 • China
Died June 12, 1978 (aged 85) • Beijing • China
Notable Works “Liangzhou jinwenci daxi tulu kaoshi” • “Nü shen”

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Bian Zhilin
Chinese poet and translator
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
Lu Xun
Chinese writer
Qu Yuan, the poet whose tragic death is commemorated in the Dragon Boat Festival
Qu Yuan
Chinese poet
Arthur David Waley
British translator
Mu Dan
Chinese poet and translator
Lin Yutang
Lin Yutang
Chinese author
Li Shangyin
Chinese poet
Charlotte Endymion Porter
American editor
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes
American poet
Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes
British poet
Robert Bly
American author
Hearn, Lafcadio
Lafcadio Hearn
British-born writer and translator
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov, portrait by an unknown artist.
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov
Russian author
José Emilio Pacheco
Mexican author
George Buchanan, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist after a portrait by Arnold Bronkhorst, 1581; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
George Buchanan
Scottish writer and educator
Tomlinson, Charles
Charles Tomlinson
British poet and translator
Louis Zukofsky
American poet
Tyard, engraving
Pontus de Tyard
French poet

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