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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	November 28, 1926 • London • England
Died	February 25, 2024 (aged 97) • United Kingdom • (Anniversary in 4 days)
Notable Works	“Awake for Mourning” • “Barricades in West Hampstead” • “Enter Solly Gold” • “Ezra” • “Love, Death, and Other Joys” • “Playing Sinatra” • “Shalom Bomb” • “The Dissent of Dominick Shapiro” • “The Dream of Peter Mann” • “The Hamlet of Stepney Green” • “The Odyssey of Samuel Glass”

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

Graham Greene

Graham Greene

British author

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Peter Redgrove

English poet, novelist, and playwright

Caroline Norton, detail of an oil painting by John Hayter.

Caroline Norton

British writer

Phillpotts, Eden

Eden Phillpotts

British writer

Mervyn Peake

Mervyn Peake

English novelist

Robert Williams Buchanan

English author

Dannie Abse

Welsh poet, playwright, essayist, and novelist

James Joyce

James Joyce

Irish author

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Irish author

Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Tobias Smollett

Scottish novelist

Oliver Goldsmith, oil painting from the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Oliver Goldsmith

Anglo-Irish author

Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian author

Portrait of dramatist Aphra Behn

Aphra Behn

English author

Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, lithograph by François Le Villain after a portrait by Fabian Sarnecki.

Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz

Polish writer

Dowson, portrait by Charles Conder; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Ernest Dowson

British poet

Nick Joaquin

Filipino author

Ama Ata Aidoo

Ghanaian writer

Henry Brooke, engraving by C. Pye after a drawing by J. Thurston from a portrait by the subject's nephew Henry Brooke

Henry Brooke

Irish author

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

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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