Karel Hynek Mácha

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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

Defenestration of Prague, this incident marks the beginning of the Thirty Years' War in 1618.

Defenestration: Prague's History of Literally Throwing Authority Out the Window

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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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Illustration for Demystified "How Dangerous is Quicksand"

How Deadly Is Quicksand?

Groups of depositors in front of the closed American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932. Great Depression run on bank crowd

Causes of the Great Depression

Lusitania sinking, illustration from The War of the Nations (New York), December 31, 1919. World War I, WWI. This image is one of three on the page. (See source file for the other two.)

7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

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The Fastest Animals on Earth

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10 of the World’s Most Dangerous Fish

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6 Questions About the History of Money and Banking Answered

July, 2006, Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery STS-121. See attached for full caption information.

Will Light-Speed Space Travel Ever Be Possible?

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Born	November 16, 1810 • Prague • Czech Republic
Died	November 5, 1836 (aged 25) • Czech Republic
Notable Works	“May”
Movement / Style	Romanticism

Jørgen Engebretsen Moe

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William Blake

British writer and artist

Victor Hugo

French writer

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

Aleksandr Pushkin

Russian author

Lord Byron

British poet

William Wordsworth

English author

John Keats

British poet

Percy Bysshe Shelley

English poet

Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832

Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny

French author

Sir Walter Scott

Scottish writer

Mikhail Lermontov

Russian writer

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

French author

Adam Mickiewicz

Polish poet

Thomas Chatterton

British poet

August Wilhelm von Schlegel

German scholar and critic

Alessandro Manzoni

Italian author

N.F.S. Grundtvig

Danish bishop and poet

Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger

Danish author

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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

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

A Study of Poetry

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