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Also Known As	Frederick Guy Butler
Born	January 21, 1918 • South Africa
Died	April 26, 2001 (aged 83) • Makhanda • South Africa • (Anniversary in 6 days)
Notable Works	“A Local Habitation” • “Bursting World” • “Cape Charade” • “Dove Returns, The” • “Pilgrimage to Dias Cross” • “Stranger to Europe” • “Take Root or Die”

Ronald Duncan

British author

Uys Krige

South African dramatist

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Otway, miniature by Thomas Flatman, c. 1675; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Thomas Otway

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Nick Joaquin

Filipino author

Robin Maugham

British author

Lennox Robinson

Irish playwright

Patrick Kavanagh

Irish poet

Phillpotts, Eden

Eden Phillpotts

British writer

Athol Fugard (center)

Athol Fugard

South African dramatist, actor, and director

Lewis Nkosi

South African author

Alfred Hutchinson

South African author

Thomas Pringle, engraving by William Finden

Thomas Pringle

Scottish-South African poet

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

English author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

English author

T.S. Eliot, 1955

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

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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

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