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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
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
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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”
Florence Baptistery of Saint John, Italy
9 Historic Buildings in Florence
Colosseum, Rome, Italy. (Flavian Amphitheatre, arena)
19 Historic Buildings to Visit in Rome
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9 Obscure Literary Terms
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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”
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Born January 28, 1582 • France
Died August 15, 1621 (aged 39) • Rome • Italy

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Horace, bronze medal, 4th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Horace
Roman poet
Florent Chrestien
French author
Persius
Roman poet
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
William Dunbar
Scottish poet
Lyndsay, drawing after a woodcut on the title page of Lyndsay's Workes, 1634
Sir David Lyndsay
Scottish poet
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
William Edmondstoune Aytoun
Scottish poet
Sir James Sempill
Scottish poet
St. Thomas Aquinas
St. Thomas Aquinas
Italian Christian theologian and philosopher
Desiderius Erasmus
Erasmus
Dutch humanist
Cicero
Cicero
Roman statesman, scholar, and writer
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish author and clergyman
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
mosaic of Virgil with Clio and Melpomene
Virgil
Roman poet
Petrarch
Petrarch
Italian poet
Ovid
Ovid
Roman poet
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
British poet
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
Catullus, bust in Sirmione, Italy.
Catullus
Roman poet

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