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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
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Famous Poets and Poetic Form
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Born September 5, 1733 • Germany
Died January 20, 1813 (aged 79) • Weimar • Germany • (Anniversary in 2 days)
Founder “Der teutsche Merkur”
Notable Works “Oberon” • “The History of Agathon”

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Ludwig Tieck
German writer
Mihály Babits
Hungarian author
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
Friedrich Martin von Bodenstedt
German writer and translator
Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye
Ethiopian author
Gregorio Martínez Sierra
Spanish dramatist
Wolf Heinrich, count von Baudissin
German translator
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
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Tsubouchi Shōyō
Japanese author
Jan Kasprowicz
Polish writer
Otto Ludwig
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Johann Elias Schlegel
German author and critic
Charlotte Endymion Porter
American editor
David Garrick as Richard III
David Garrick
English actor, poet, and producer
Vajiravudh
Vajiravudh
king of Siam
Robert Armin
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Nahum Tate
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Eduard Devrient
German actor
Helen Archibald Clarke
American writer and editor
Lamb, Mary Ann; Lamb, Charles
Charles Lamb
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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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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry