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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
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
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Also Known As Stanczykówna
Born July 2, 1923 • Poland
Died February 1, 2012 (aged 88) • Kraków • Poland
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1996)
Notable Works “Dlatego zyjemy” • “Wołanie do Yeti”
Movement / Style Socialist Realism

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Czesław Miłosz
Czesław Miłosz
Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat
Kazimierz Pochwalski: Henryk Sienkiewicz
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Polish writer
Wole Soyinka, 2015
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
Octavio Paz.
Octavio Paz
Mexican writer and diplomat
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson
Norwegian author
Quasimodo
Salvatore Quasimodo
Italian poet
Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Tokarczuk
Polish author
Reymont, Władysław Stanisław
Władysław Stanisław Reymont
Polish author
Herbert, Zbigniew
Zbigniew Herbert
Polish author
Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
Polish poet
Jerzy Putrament
Polish author and editor
Naruszewicz, Adam
Adam Naruszewicz
Polish bishop and historian
Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale
Italian author
T.S. Eliot, 1955
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
The Shakespeare of his generation
Bob Dylan
American musician
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
American author
Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda
Chilean poet
William Butler Yeats, c. 1915.
William Butler Yeats
Irish author and poet
Theodor Mommsen.
Theodor Mommsen
German historian, philologist, and legal scholar
French write and Nobel laureate André Gide
André Gide
French writer

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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
A Study of Poetry