Robert Faesi

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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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Two chicks near an egg with a white background (poultry, chick, chickens, birds).

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Ahura Mazda - relief of the Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda at the ancient ruins of Persepolis in Iran. Also known as Ormazd Zoroastrianism,

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Entrants falling and tumbling over while chasing the cheese at the 2016 'Cheese Rolling' held at Cooper's Hill, in the Cotswolds, Brockworth England

7 of the World’s Most Dangerous Festivals

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

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Born	April 10, 1883 • Zürich • Switzerland
Died	September 18, 1972 (aged 89) • Switzerland
Notable Works	“Die Stadt der Väter, Stadt der Freiheit, Stadt des Friedens” • “Die schwarze Spinne” • “Füsilier Wipf” • “Zürcher Idylle”
Subjects Of Study	German literature

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

German dramatist

Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Austrian author

Ingeborg Bachmann

Austrian author

Carl Spitteler

Swiss poet

Robert Walser

Swiss writer

Jakob Schaffner

Swiss writer

Albin Zollinger

Swiss writer

Bodmer, engraving by H. Pfenninger after a portrait by F. Tischbein

Johann Jakob Bodmer

Swiss historian and writer

Alfred Andersch

German-Swiss writer

Adolf Frey

Swiss writer and historian

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke

Austrian-German poet

Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Ger.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

German author

Master of the macabre

Edgar Allan Poe

American writer

William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

William Congreve

English dramatist

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

Friedrich Hölderlin

Friedrich Hölderlin

German poet

Wole Soyinka, 2015

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian author

Gerhart Hauptmann

Gerhart Hauptmann

German writer

Quiz

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