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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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Also Known As Cynthia Lee
Born February 2, 1928 • New York City • New York
Died August 3, 2015 (aged 87) • Logan • Utah
Notable Works “Amputations” • “Transplants”
W.H. Auden
W. H. Auden
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Donald Justice
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Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon
Northern Irish poet
Paula Gunn Allen
Paula Gunn Allen
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James Russell Lowell.
James Russell Lowell
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Merwin, W.S.
W.S. Merwin
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Ha Jin
Ha Jin
Chinese American writer
Stein, Gertrude
Gertrude Stein
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Harriet Monroe
Harriet Monroe
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Amy Lowell
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Mona Van Duyn
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Constance Lindsay Skinner
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Carl Sandburg.
Carl Sandburg
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Allen Tate.
Allen Tate
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John Crowe Ransom
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Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
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James Weldon Johnson
James Weldon Johnson
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Louis Zukofsky
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Ellen Louise Chandler Moulton
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Sara Teasdale.
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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