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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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New Zealand. Political/Physical map. Includes locator.

Where Is “Old Zealand”?

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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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Easter Procession of Maria Santisima del Sacromonte in Granada, Spain. This statue is known as Virgen de los Gitanos or The Virgin of the Gypsies.

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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

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African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

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Born	1605 • England
Buried	April 6, 1641

Thomas Randolph

English poet and dramatist

William Shakespeare

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John Dryden

British author

Suckling, oil painting by an unknown artist; in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Sir John Suckling

English poet and dramatist

James Shirley

English playwright

David Garrick

English actor, poet, and producer

John Fletcher

English dramatist

John Marston

British dramatist

Philip Massinger

English playwright

Thomas Middleton

English dramatist

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

Thomas Otway

English author

Robert Armin

English actor

William Rowley

English dramatist and actor

Thomas Sackville, 1st earl of Dorset

English statesman, poet, and dramatist

Pierre Corneille

French poet and dramatist

Oscar Wilde

Irish author

Franz Grillparzer

Austrian dramatist

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

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Austrian author

Pietro Aretino

Italian author

J.M. Synge

Irish author

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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

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