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Born November 16, 1807 • Iceland
Died May 26, 1845 (aged 37) • Copenhagen • Denmark
Founder “Fjölnir”
Movement / Style Romanticism

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Victor Hugo
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Lord Byron
Lord Byron
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William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth
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Lamartine, detail of an oil painting by François Gérard; in the Musée National de Versailles et des Trianons
Alphonse de Lamartine
French poet, historian, and statesman
Théophile Gautier
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N.F.S. Grundtvig
N.F.S. Grundtvig
Danish bishop and poet
Prešeren, France
France Prešeren
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António Feliciano de Castilho
António Feliciano de Castilho
Portuguese poet and translator
Aribau, oil painting by J.E. Rull; in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Jorge de Barcelona
Buenaventura Carles Aribau
Spanish author
Jóhannes Bjarni Jónasson
Icelandic poet
Tómas Gudmundsson
Icelandic poet
Einar Benediktsson
Icelandic poet
William Blake
William Blake
British writer and artist
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
Aleksandr Pushkin
Aleksandr Pushkin
Russian author
Keats, John
John Keats
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832
Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny
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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
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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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