Thomas Kinsella

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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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Thomas Kinsella: Facts & Related Content

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Born	May 4, 1928 • Dublin • Ireland
Died	December 22, 2021 (aged 93) • Dublin • Ireland
Notable Works	“Another September” • “Belief and Unbelief” • “Blood & Family” • “Butcher’s Dozen” • “Downstream” • “Fat Master” • “Man of War” • “Marginal Economy” • “New Poems 1956–73” • “Nightwalker, and Other Poems” • “One, and Other Poems”

Poet Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

Irish poet

Derek Mahon

Northern Irish poet and translator

Louis MacNeice

British poet

John Banim

Irish author

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

Anglo-Irish author and clergyman

James Joyce

James Joyce

Irish author

William Butler Yeats, c. 1915.

William Butler Yeats

Irish author and poet

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Irish author

Oliver Goldsmith, oil painting from the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Oliver Goldsmith

Anglo-Irish author

Colm Tóibín

Colm Tóibín

Irish author

Paul Muldoon

Paul Muldoon

Northern Irish poet

AE

Irish poet

Thomas Moore, detail of an oil painting by Sir Martin Archer Shee, 1818; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Thomas Moore

Irish author and composer

Eavan Boland

Irish poet and literary critic

Frank O’Connor

Irish author

Paul Durcan

Irish poet

Mangan, James Clarence

James Clarence Mangan

Irish writer

Henry Brooke, engraving by C. Pye after a drawing by J. Thurston from a portrait by the subject's nephew Henry Brooke

Henry Brooke

Irish author

Lennox Robinson

Irish playwright

Patrick Kavanagh

Irish poet

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

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