Nicolae Davidescu

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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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Nazi Germany, Nazi SS troops marching with victory standards at the Party Day rally in Nuremberg, Germany, 1933. (Schutzstaffel, Nazi Party, Nurnberg)

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Born	1888 • Bucharest • Romania
Died	1954 (aged 66)
Notable Works	“Cântecul omului”

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Vladimir Nabokov

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Wole Soyinka

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Edmund Wilson

American critic

Théophile Gautier

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François Mauriac

French author

Cesare Pavese

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José Lezama Lima

Cuban author

G.K. Chesterton

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Robert Graves

British writer

Robert Penn Warren

American writer

Severo Sarduy

Cuban writer

Simms, detail of an engraving published by Johnson, Fry and Company, 1861

William Gilmore Simms

American novelist

Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov

Russian author

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Baren

Chinese author and critic

Riccardo Bacchelli

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Leopoldo Lugones

Argentine 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

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

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