Henri Michaux

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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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Battle of the Alamo from "Texas: An Epitome of Texas History from the Filibustering and Revolutionary Eras to the Independence of the Republic, 1897. Texas Revolution, Texas revolt, Texas independence, Texas history.

6 Wars of Independence

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What Do Eggs Have to Do with Easter?

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Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture

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

9 Mind-Altering Plants

9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

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

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Born	May 24, 1899 • Namur • Belgium
Died	October 18, 1984 (aged 85) • Paris • France
Movement / Style	Surrealism

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Antonin Artaud

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Christian Dotremont

Belgian author

Conrad Detrez

Belgian author

Charles Baudelaire

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Stendhal

French author

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

French critic

André Gide

French writer

Paul Verlaine

French poet

François Mauriac

French author

Simone de Beauvoir

French writer

Charles Maurras

French writer and political theorist

Gérard de Nerval

French poet

Suzanne Lilar

Belgian author

Hervé Bazin

French author

Alfred de Musset

French author

Maxime Du Camp

French writer and photographer

Marie Gevers

Belgian writer

Paul Adam

French author

Claude Cahun

French writer, photographer, Surrealist, and performance artist

Jean Cocteau

French poet and artist

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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

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

A Study of Poetry

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