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World Poetry Day

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

9 Obscure Literary Terms

Chapter 4 pg 42 - Chapter header of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Published in 1884 by The American Publishing Company

Periods of American Literature

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Causes of the Great Depression

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6 Important Mughal Emperors

What Is the Most Widely Practiced Religion in the World?

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Born	November 27, 1865 • Bogotá • Colombia
Died	May 23, 1896 (aged 30) • Bogotá • Colombia

Tomás Carrasquilla

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Álvaro Mutis

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Guillermo Valencia

Colombian author and statesman

José Eustasio Rivera

Colombian poet

Jorge Isaacs

Colombian writer

Luis Carlos López

Colombian poet

Iván Duque

president of Colombia

Gabriel García Márquez

Colombian author

Ingrid Betancourt

Colombian politician

Germán Arciniegas

Colombian writer and diplomat

León de Greiff

Colombian poet

Augusto de Campos

Brazilian poet and critic

Pablo Neruda

Chilean poet

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Mexican poet and scholar

Jorge Luis Borges

Argentine author

Rubén Darío

Nicaraguan writer

Octavio Paz

Mexican writer and diplomat

César Vallejo

Peruvian poet

José Martí

Cuban patriot

José Lezama Lima

Cuban 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:

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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