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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

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How Deadly Is Quicksand?

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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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Born	1921 • Flórina • Greece
Died	November 10, 2001 (aged 80) • Istanbul • Turkey
Notable Works	“Dry Summer”

Namık Kemal

Turkish author and social reformer

Reșat Nuri Güntekin

Turkish writer

Abdülhak Hâmid

Turkish author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Miguel de Cervantes

Spanish writer

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Aleksandr Pushkin

Russian author

Ivan Turgenev

Russian author

James Joyce

Irish author

Oscar Wilde

Irish author

Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832

Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny

French author

Sylvia Plath

American author

Luigi Pirandello

Italian author

Alphonse Daudet

French author

Graham Greene

British author

Gerhart Hauptmann

German writer

Gabriele D’Annunzio

Italian writer and political leader

Tibor Déry

Hungarian writer

Dorothy Parker

American author

Rabindranath Tagore

Bengali poet

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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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