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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
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
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
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Flourished c.401 - c.500
Notable Works “De laudibus dei” • “Hexaëmeron” • “Romulea” • “Satisfactio”
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Horace, bronze medal, 4th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Horace
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Cicero
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mosaic of Virgil with Clio and Melpomene
Virgil
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Petrarch
Petrarch
Italian poet
Ovid
Ovid
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Catullus, bust in Sirmione, Italy.
Catullus
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Hugo Grotius
Hugo Grotius
Dutch statesman and scholar
Sextus Propertius
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Lucretius
Lucretius
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Martial
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Juvenal
Juvenal
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St. Ambrose
St. Ambrose
bishop of Milan
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Poliziano
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Albius Tibullus
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Quintus Ennius
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Godfrey of Saint-Victor
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Vondel, detail of an engraving after a portrait by Joachim Sandrart, 1635
Joost van den Vondel
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Lucan
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Calpurnius Siculus
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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
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