William Shenstone

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Shenstone, detail of an oil painting by E. Alcock, 1750; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

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Why Was Nazi Germany Called the Third Reich?

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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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Born	November 18, 1714 • England
Died	February 11, 1763 (aged 48) • England
Subjects Of Study	landscape architecture

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Anthony Munday

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John Lehmann

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Geoffrey Grigson

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Alfred Austin

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Dom Moraes

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Joan Aiken

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George Woodcock

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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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