Thom Gunn

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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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7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks

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Battle of the Alamo from "Texas: An Epitome of Texas History from the Filibustering and Revolutionary Eras to the Independence of the Republic, 1897. Texas Revolution, Texas revolt, Texas independence, Texas history.

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Clive Wilmer obituary • Apr. 8, 2025, 4:02 AM ET (The Guardian)

Clive Wilmer, poet, author, scholar and champion of the work of Thom Gunn – obituary • Mar. 24, 2025, 11:10 PM ET (The Telegraph)

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Also Known As	Thomson William Gunn
Born	August 29, 1929 • Gravesend • England
Died	April 25, 2004 (aged 74) • San Francisco • California • (Anniversary in 5 days)
Notable Works	“On the Move” • “Positives” • “The Sense of Movement”

C.S. Lewis

Irish-born author and scholar

Rudyard Kipling

British writer

Ann Radcliffe

English author

G.K. Chesterton

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Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Kingsley Amis

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C. Day-Lewis

British poet

Sylvia Townsend Warner

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John Masefield

British poet

Jack Clemo

British poet

Eden Phillpotts

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Siegfried Sassoon

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Otway, miniature by Thomas Flatman, c. 1675; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Thomas Otway

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Muriel Spark

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John Betjeman

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Hugh MacDiarmid

Scottish poet

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

British poet

Joseph Blanco White

Spanish-English writer

John Lehmann

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Thomas Cooper

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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

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

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

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