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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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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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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”
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Data analysis of the Super Bowl's "winningest" teams, game locations, MVP winners by position, teams with the most game losses. football, sports, infographic
From Sport to Spectacle: The History of the Super Bowl
Horses. Equus caballus. Horse stable. A brown horse looks out from his stall through the window.
Horsing Around: 7 of the Weirdest Racehorse Names in History
Attack on Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor infographic. World War II. Hawaii. United States. Japan. SPOTLIGHT VERSION
Attack on Pearl Harbor Timeline
bird. mourning dove. pigeon and dove. Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) family Columbidae.
Nikola Tesla's Weird Obsession with Pigeons
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.
Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement
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The 10 Greatest Basketball Players of All Time
The Lost Colony of Roanoke, North Carolina, where 115 people mysteriously disappeared c. 1590. John White discovers the word Croatoan carved onto a tree upon his return to the deserted Roanoke Colony in 1590
The Lost Colony of Roanoke

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Also Known As Arthur James Marshall Smith
Born November 8, 1902 • Montreal • Canada
Died November 21, 1980 (aged 78) • East Lansing • Michigan
Founder “McGill Fortnightly Review”
Notable Works “Book of Canadian Poetry” • “The Blasted Pine”
Movement / Style Montreal group
Patrick Anderson
Canadian poet
Helen Archibald Clarke
American writer and editor
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
George Woodcock
Canadian writer
Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Es’kia Mphahlele
South African writer
Quiller-Couch, 1943
Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
British writer
Geoffrey Grigson
British editor and poet
Sir J. C. Squire
British journalist and author
Charlotte Endymion Porter
American editor
Harriet Monroe
Harriet Monroe
American poet
Louis Zukofsky
American poet
Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky
American poet and critic
Sterling Brown
American educator, literary critic and poet
Earle Birney
Canadian writer and educator
Wilfred Campbell
Canadian poet
Edmund Clarence Stedman
American writer
Pratt, E.J.
E.J. Pratt
Canadian 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
Famous Poets and Poetic Form
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
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
A Study of Poetry
Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry