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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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poem. A poet in a Heian period kimono writes Japanese poetry during the Kamo Kyokusui No En Ancient Festival at Jonan-gu shrine on April 29, 2013 in Kyoto, Japan. Festival of Kyokusui-no Utage orignated in 1,182, party Heian era (794-1192).
World Poetry Day
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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”
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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”
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Born November 23, 1941 • Belfast • Northern Ireland • (Birthday in 2 days)
Died October 2, 2020 (aged 78) • Kinsale • Ireland
Notable Works “Harbour Lights” • “Life on Earth” • “Night-Crossing” • “The Hunt by Night” • “The Snow Party” • “Twelve Poems”
Louis MacNeice
British poet
William Butler Yeats, c. 1915.
William Butler Yeats
Irish author and poet
Poet Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney
Irish poet
Thomas Kinsella
Irish poet
Eavan Boland
Irish poet and literary critic
Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon
Northern Irish poet
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
John Banim
Irish author
George Meredith, detail of an oil painting by G.F. Watts, 1893; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
George Meredith
English novelist
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift
Anglo-Irish author and clergyman
James Joyce
James Joyce
Irish author
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
British author
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Irish author
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, photograph by Lewis Carroll, 1863
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English artist
William Morris
British artist and author
C.S. Lewis
C.S. Lewis
Irish-born author and scholar
Oliver Goldsmith, oil painting from the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Oliver Goldsmith
Anglo-Irish author
Colm Tóibín
Colm Tóibín
Irish author
Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Robert Southey
English author
Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage
British poet, playwright, and novelist

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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