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Also Known As	Bruce Victor Beaver
Born	February 14, 1928 • Australia
Died	February 17, 2004 (aged 76) • Australia
Notable Works	“Letters to Live Poets” • “The Hot Spring” • “You Can’t Come Back”

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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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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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