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A Study of Poetry
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Born April 23, 1895 • União dos Palmares • Brazil • (Birthday in 3 days)
Died November 15, 1953 (aged 58) • Rio de Janeiro • Brazil
Notable Works “O Mundo do Menino Impossível”
Movement / Style Art Nouveau • Northeastern school
Augusto de Campos
Brazilian poet and critic
andrade, mario de
Mário de Andrade
Brazilian writer
Andrade, Oswald de
Oswald de Andrade
Brazilian author
Bernardo Guimarães
Brazilian author
Rachel de Queiroz
Brazilian novelist
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
Brazilian poet and journalist
Graciliano Ramos
Brazilian author
Murilo Mendes
Brazilian poet
José Américo de Almeida
Brazilian novelist
Rui Ribeiro Couto
Brazilian writer
José Lins do Rego
Brazilian novelist
Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho
Brazilian author
Rubem Fonseca
Brazilian author
Nélida Piñon
Brazilian author
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis.
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Brazilian author
Clarice Lispector
Brazilian author
Ariano Suassuna
Brazilian writer
Érico Lopes Veríssimo
Brazilian author
Meireles, Cecília
Cecília Meireles
Brazilian poet
Basílio da Gama
Brazilian poet

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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