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Born	October 29, 1909 • Maputo • Mozambique
Died	December 25, 1943 (aged 34) • Maputo • Mozambique

José Craveirinha

East African writer

Luís Bernardo Honwana

Mozambican author

Jorge Rebelo

Mozambican poet, lawyer, and journalist

Joaquim Dias Cordeiro da Matta

Angolan scholar

Mário António

Angolan author

António Nobre

Portuguese poet

Samuel Johnson

English author

Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish author and clergyman

James Joyce

Irish author

Daniel Defoe

English author

Luís de Camões

Portuguese poet

Joseph Addison

English author

Gil Vicente

Portuguese dramatist

James Fenton

British poet and journalist

Rubén Darío

Nicaraguan writer

Ishmael Reed

American author

G.K. Chesterton

British author

Jeannette Leonard Gilder

American editor and writer

Fernando Pessoa

Portuguese poet

Diane Ackerman

American author

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

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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

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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:

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