Henry Bauchau

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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).

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Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture

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

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Born	January 22, 1913 • Mechelen • Belgium
Died	September 21, 2012 (aged 99) • France
Notable Works	“La Chine intérieure” • “La Déchirure” • “Le Régiment noir” • “Oedipus on the Road”

Suzanne Lilar

Belgian author

Émile Verhaeren

Belgian poet

Paul Willems

Belgian author

Herman Teirlinck

Flemish author

Pierre Mertens

Belgian author

Victor Hugo

French writer

Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832

Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny

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Alphonse Daudet

French author

Jean Cocteau

French poet and artist

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Moroccan author

François Mauriac

French author

Jules Romains

French author

Anne Hébert

Canadian poet and novelist

Assia Djebar

Algerian writer and filmmaker

Mohammed Dib

Algerian author

Scarron, engraving by Georg Friedrich Schmidt after a drawing by Antoine Boizot

Paul Scarron

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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

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Kateb Yacine

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Bernard Binlin Dadié

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René Philombe

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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

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

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

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

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

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