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Also Known As	J. Bernlef
Born	September 30, 1899 • Zeist • Netherlands
Died	June 21, 1940 (aged 40) • English Channel
Notable Works	“Paradise Regained”

Albert Verwey

Dutch poet

Willem Kloos

Dutch author

Daniël Heinsius

Dutch poet

Hermanus Johannes Aloysius Maria Schaepman

Dutch statesman

Frederik Willem van Eeden

Dutch author and physician

Edgar du Perron

Dutch writer and critic

Everhardus Johannes Potgieter

Dutch author

Henric Laurenszoon Spieghel

Dutch poet

Anna Visscher

Dutch poet

Helen Archibald Clarke

American writer and editor

Samuel Johnson

English author

Alexander Pope

English author

Robert Burns

Scottish poet

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian author

James Russell Lowell

American poet and critic

Octavio Paz

Mexican writer and diplomat

Théophile Gautier

French author

Carol Ann Duffy

British poet

Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov

Russian author

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

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

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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:

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