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Born	December 20, 1867 • Indiana
Died	August 15, 1945 (aged 77) • Boston • Massachusetts
Notable Works	“Convention and Revolt in Poetry” • “The Road to Xanadu”
Subjects Of Study	Samuel Taylor Coleridge

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

A.J.M. Smith

Canadian poet and anthologist

Edmund Clarence Stedman

American writer

Samuel Johnson

English author

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

Alexander Pope

English author

Matthew Arnold

British critic

John Dryden

British author

Percy Bysshe Shelley

English poet

Robert Burns

Scottish poet

Sir Philip Sidney

English author and statesman

William Congreve

English dramatist

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian author

James Fenton

British poet and journalist

Algernon Charles Swinburne

English poet

Cesare Pavese

Italian author

Louise Bogan

American poet and literary critic

G.K. Chesterton

British author

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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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