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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 Donald Michael Thomas
Born January 27, 1935 • England
Died March 26, 2023 (aged 88) • Truro • England
Notable Works “Birthstone” • “Charlotte” • “Flying into Love” • “Hunters in the Snow” • “Lady with a Laptop” • “Logan Stone” • “Love and Other Deaths” • “Lying Together” • “Mrs. English and Other Women” • “The Flute-Player” • “The Honeymoon Voyage” • “The Shaft” • “The White Hotel” • “Vintage Ghosts”
John Wain
British critic and writer
Novelist Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
British writer
Aldington, Richard
Richard Aldington
English author
Maurice Baring
British author
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British writer
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
George Meredith, detail of an oil painting by G.F. Watts, 1893; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
George Meredith
English novelist
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy
British writer
Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll
British author
Charlotte Brontë
Charlotte Brontë
British author
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar
Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
British writer
Graham Greene
Graham Greene
British author
Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë
British author
Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
English author
Illustration from Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest
Ann Radcliffe
English author
Chesterton, G.K.
G.K. Chesterton
British author
Robert Graves
British writer
Penelope Fitzgerald
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Novelist Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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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