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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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Born May 9, 1938 • Belgrade
Died January 9, 2023 (aged 84) • Dover • New Hampshire
Awards And Honors Pulitzer Prize • National Book Award • Frost Medal (2011)
Notable Works “A Fly in the Soup” • “Aunt Lettuce, I Want to Peek Under Your Skirt” • “Dime-Store Alchemy” • “My Noiseless Entourage” • “Scribbled in the Dark” • “The Unemployed Fortune Teller” • “The World Doesn’t End” • “What the Grass Says”

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Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
American poet
Elizabeth Bishop, 1938
Elizabeth Bishop
American poet
James Merrill
American poet
Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver
American poet
Robert Hass
American poet and translator
Philip Levine
Philip Levine
American poet
Ashbery, John
John Ashbery
American poet
James Tate
American poet
Richard Wilbur
American poet
Galway Kinnell
American poet
Gary Snyder
American poet
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
British poet
Rita Dove
Rita Dove
American author
Robert Lowell, c. 1960
Robert Lowell
American poet
Robert Penn Warren
Robert Penn Warren
American writer
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens
American poet
C.K. Williams
American poet
Conrad Aiken.
Conrad Aiken
American writer
John Berryman
John Berryman
American poet
Mona Van Duyn
Mona Van Duyn
American poet

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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