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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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World Poetry Day
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Born April 24, 1845 • Liestal • Switzerland
Died December 29, 1924 (aged 79) • Lucerne • Switzerland
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize
Notable Works “Conrad der Leutnant” • “Der olympische Frühling” • “Extramundana” • “Imago” • “Laughing Truths” • “Meine frühesten Erlebnisse” • “Prometheus der Dulder” • “Prometheus und Epimetheus” • “Two Little Misogynists” • “Unser Schweizer Standpunkt”
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Paul Ernst
Paul Ernst
German writer
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann
German author
Luigi Pirandello
Luigi Pirandello
Italian author
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer
American author
Günter Grass
Günter Grass
German writer
Bunin
Ivan Bunin
Russian author
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio
French author
Doris Lessing
British writer
Herta Müller, 2009.
Herta Müller
Romanian-born German writer
Johannes V. Jensen
Danish author
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Jakob Schaffner
Swiss writer
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
William Faulkner
William Faulkner
American author
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
French author
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Russian author
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson
Norwegian author
Olga Tokarczuk
Olga Tokarczuk
Polish 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
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