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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).

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Born	March 25, 1881 • England
Died	October 8, 1927 (aged 46) • England
Notable Works	“Precious Bane”

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D.H. Lawrence

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Thomas Hardy

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Daniel Defoe

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Lewis Carroll

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Anna Seward

English poet, literary critic, and intellectual

Charlotte Brontë

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C.S. Lewis

Irish-born author and scholar

Rudyard Kipling

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Emily Brontë

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Samuel Butler

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Ann Radcliffe

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G.K. Chesterton

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Robert Graves

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Aphra Behn

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Sir Stephen Spender

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F.R. Leavis

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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

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