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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”

Ancient book lit by candle

9 Obscure Literary Terms

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

The Catcher in the Rye By J.D. Salinger. Hardcover Book first sold: July 16, 1951. Current cover design dated 1991? Previous solid maroon book cover with gold font designed by J.D. Salinger in response to racey pulp paper back book cover. bad books

5 Good Books That Inspired Bad Deeds

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Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.

Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

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Was Santa Claus a Real Person?

Iraqi Army Soldiers from the 9th Mechanized Division learning to operate and maintain M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tanks at Besmaya Combat Training Center, Baghdad, Iraq, 2011. Military training. Iraq war. U.S. Army

8 Deadliest Wars of the 21st Century

Thanksgiving Celebration Traditional Dinner Setting Food Concept

Why Is Thanksgiving in the U.S. Celebrated on a Thursday?

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10 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time

Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1855), founder of the house of Rothschild; lithograph by Friedrich Lieder, c. 1830.

Where Do Anti-Semitic Conspiracy Theories About the Rothschild Family Come From?

A human Inuit skull in a stone chambered cairn in Ilulissat in Greenland. These ancient graves are pre christian and are at least 2000

14 Tough Questions Answered

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Flourished	c.299 BCE - c.250 BCE

Leonidas of Tarentum

Greek poet

Rhianus

Greek poet and scholar

Meleager

Greek poet

Aulus Licinius Archias

Greek poet

Agathias

Byzantine historian and poet

Philodemus

Greek poet and philosopher

Domenico Ghirlandaio

Poliziano

Italian poet and humanist

Ion of Chios

Greek poet

Homer

Homer

Greek poet

Pindar

Greek poet

Hesiod

Hesiod

Greek poet

Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence: Sappho and Alcaeus

Alcaeus

Greek poet

Simonides of Ceos

Greek poet

Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence: Sappho and Alcaeus

Sappho

Greek poet

Archilochus

Greek author

Anacreon, Roman copy of a 5th-century-bc bust by Phidias; in the Louvre, Paris.

Anacreon

Greek poet

Fragment of Bacchylides' work, from a papyrus roll of the 2nd century ad; in the British Museum, London.

Bacchylides

Greek lyric poet

Callimachus

Greek poet and scholar

Theognis

Greek poet

Stesichorus

Greek 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

Portrait of Plato (ca. 428- ca. 348 BC), Ancient Greek philosopher.

An Odyssey of Grecian Literature

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