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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
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
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9 Obscure Literary Terms
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Periods of American Literature
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6 Questions About the History of Money and Banking Answered
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Also Known As Ptochoprodromus
Died c.1166
Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos
Byzantine historian
George the Pisidian
Byzantine poet
John Tzetzes
Byzantine scholar
Michael Choniates
Byzantine historian
Constantine Manasses
Byzantine chronicler
John Mauropous
Byzantine scholar
John Geometres
Byzantine poet, official, and monk
Horace, bronze medal, 4th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Horace
Roman poet
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish author and clergyman
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
British poet
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
Heinrich Heine, c. 1827.
Heinrich Heine
German author
French write and Nobel laureate André Gide
André Gide
French writer
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Lu Xun
Chinese writer
Ferdowsī (lower left corner) with three poets in a garden, miniature from a Persian manuscript, 17th century; in the British Library
Ferdowsī
Persian poet
Ludvig Holberg
Ludvig Holberg, Baron Holberg
Scandinavian author
John Gay, oil painting by William Aikman; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
John Gay
British author
Samuel Butler
English author [1612–1680]

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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