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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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World Poetry Day
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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”
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11 Banned Books Through Time
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Flags That Look Alike
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Also Known As Alfred Leslie Rowse
Born December 4, 1903 • England
Died October 3, 1997 (aged 93) • Saint Austell • England
Notable Works “The Elizabethan Age”
Subjects Of Study England • Tower of London • culture • sexuality • social structure
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Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
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Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
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Andrew Motion
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Novelist Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
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Hugh Trevor-Roper
Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton
British historian
Allan Cunningham, detail of a portrait by Henry Room; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Allan Cunningham
Scottish poet
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
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Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Sean O’Faolain
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Francis Godwin, detail of an engraving by G. Vertue, derived from an earlier portrait, frontispiece to De Praesulibus Angliae, 1743
Francis Godwin
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Edmund Clarence Stedman
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Alexander Chalmers
Scottish author and editor
Lord Byron
Lord Byron
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Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
Newman, John Henry
St. John Henry Newman
British theologian
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
The man who invented Middle-earth
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Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon
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James Anthony Froude
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Carol Ann Duffy
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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