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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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bird. mourning dove. pigeon and dove. Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) family Columbidae.

Nikola Tesla's Weird Obsession with Pigeons

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

Periods of American Literature

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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.

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Born	July 30, 1912 • Rugby • England
Died	October 15, 2001 (aged 89) • Oxford • England

Sir Edward Howard Marsh

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William Congreve

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W. H. Auden

British poet

Ronald Duncan

British author

Carol Ann Duffy

British poet

Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Robert Southey

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W.S. Gilbert

British playwright

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Sir J. C. Squire

British journalist and author

Uys Krige

South African dramatist

Samuel Johnson

English author

Christopher Marlowe

English writer

Thomas Lodge

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John Marston

British dramatist

Thomas Shadwell

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Anthony Munday

English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator

Nicholas Rowe

English writer and editor

George Chapman

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Sir Charles Sedley, 4th Baronet

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Laurence Binyon

English scholar and poet

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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

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