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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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Chapter 4 pg 42 - Chapter header of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Published in 1884 by The American Publishing Company

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Born	February 10, 1685 • London • England
Died	February 8, 1750 (aged 64) • London • England
Notable Works	“Mérope” • “The Tragedy of Zara”

Samuel Johnson

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W. H. Auden

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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

Uys Krige

South African dramatist

D.H. Lawrence

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Graham Greene

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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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Sir Stephen Spender

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Nicholas Rowe

English writer and editor

Anne Ridler

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Dodsley, detail of an oil painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1760; in Dulwich College Picture Gallery, London

Robert Dodsley

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Nahum Tate

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Richard Flecknoe

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Sir J. C. Squire

British journalist and author

Wole Soyinka

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Carol Ann Duffy

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Allan Ramsay

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Ronald Duncan

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Joseph Viktor Widmann

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Donagh MacDonagh

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

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