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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:
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Also Known As Christian Karlson Stead
Born October 17, 1932 (age 92) • Auckland • New Zealand
Title / Office poet laureate (2015-2017)
Notable Works “All Visitors Ashore” • “Between” • “Crossing the Bar” • “Mansfield” • “Paris” • “Quesada: Poems 1972-1974” • “Risk” • “Sister Hollywood” • “Smith’s Dream” • “Straw into Gold: Poems New and Selected” • “Talking About O’Dwyer” • “The Black River” • “The Death of the Body” • “The End of the Century at the End of the World” • “The Necessary Angel” • “The Red Tram” • “The Right Thing” • “The Yellow Buoy: Poems 2007-2012” • “Villa Vittoria” • “Voices” • “Whether the Will Is Free: Poems 1954-62”
Robert Graves
British writer
Keri Hulme
New Zealand author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott
Scottish writer
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka
Nigerian author
Cesare Pavese
Italian author
Chesterton, G.K.
G.K. Chesterton
British author
Simms, detail of an engraving published by Johnson, Fry and Company, 1861
William Gilmore Simms
American novelist
Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Riccardo Bacchelli
Italian author
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, lithograph by François Le Villain after a portrait by Fabian Sarnecki.
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
Polish writer
F.R. Leavis
British critic
Horace Smith
English writer
Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, portrait after an oil painting by I.E. Repin, 1879
Aleksey Konstantinovich, Count Tolstoy
Russian writer
John Wain
British critic and writer
A. Alvarez
British author and critic
Charlotte Lennox, detail of an engraving by Francesco Bartolozzi after a portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Charlotte Lennox
British author
Andrew Lang
British scholar
Aldington, Richard
Richard Aldington
English author

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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