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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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Born	June 15, 1605 • England
Died	March 1635 (aged 29) • Northamptonshire • England
Notable Works	“The Muse’s Looking-Glass”

William Shakespeare

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David Garrick

English actor, poet, and producer

John Dryden

British author

John Marston

British dramatist

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

Thomas Otway

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

Sir John Suckling

English poet and dramatist

Robert Armin

English actor

James Shirley

English playwright

Thomas Nabbes

English writer

Oscar Wilde

Irish author

Allan Ramsay

Scottish poet

Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz

Polish writer

Spike Milligan

Irish writer and comedian

Donagh MacDonagh

Irish author

Samuel Johnson

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D.H. Lawrence

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

Matthew Arnold

British critic

Robert Browning

British poet

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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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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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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Books. Lord Alfred Tennyson. Lord Byron. Poetry. Reading. Literacy. Library. Antique. A stack of four antique leather bound books.

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

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