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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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Parsons Weems' Fable, oil on canvas by Grant Wood, 1939; in the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Catalog entry: The historian Mason Locke Weems, commonly known by his clerical title, Parson Weems, pulls back a curtain to point at 6-year-old George Washington. Bearing an adult head and holding an axe, George gazes blankly up at his father, Augustine, who questions his son while holding a partially cut cherry tree. All of this takes place in front of a 20th-century brick building, which Wood modeled after his own home in Iowa. The scene illustrates the fable of Washington and the cherry tree, which Weems invented in 1806 for the first president's biography. Wood playfully suggests the artifice of the tale here, presenting the story in the manner of a costumed stage play rather than a real event. Amid the action, two Black figures pick cherries in the background, a reference to Washington' slaveholding past and a reminder of of what often gets left out in historical mythmaking.

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Born	February 18, 1855 • Switzerland
Died	February 12, 1920 (aged 64) • Zürich • Switzerland
Notable Works	“Die Jungfer von Wattenwil” • “Duss und underm Rafe”

Robert Walser

Swiss writer

Carl Spitteler

Swiss poet

Peter Bichsel

Swiss author

Jakob Schaffner

Swiss writer

Robert Faesi

Swiss writer

Albin Zollinger

Swiss writer

Alfred Andersch

German-Swiss writer

Meinrad Inglin

Swiss author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Rainer Maria Rilke

Austrian-German poet

Bertolt Brecht

German dramatist

Friedrich Hölderlin

German poet

Gerhart Hauptmann

German writer

Michel Houellebecq

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Ishmael Reed

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Arno Schmidt

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Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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Paul Auster

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Ha Jin

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Uwe Johnson

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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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