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Fabius Planciades Fulgentius
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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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Flourished c.450 - c.549
Notable Works “Expositio Vergilianae continentiae secundum philosophos moralis” • “Expositio sermonum antiquorum” • “Liber absque litteris de aetatibus mundi et hominis” • “Mitologiarum libri iii”
Subjects Of Study Virgil
Publius Annius Florus
Roman historian
Fenestella
Roman poet
Hugo Grotius
Hugo Grotius
Dutch statesman and scholar
Domenico Ghirlandaio
Poliziano
Italian poet and humanist
Robert Graves
British writer
Vondel, detail of an engraving after a portrait by Joachim Sandrart, 1635
Joost van den Vondel
Dutch writer
Wang Guowei
Chinese scholar
Constance Lindsay Skinner
American writer and historian
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Francisco Manuel de Melo
Portuguese author
Robert Fitzgerald
American poet
Fernando de Herrera
Spanish poet
Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin
German philologist
Horace, bronze medal, 4th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Horace
Roman poet
Cicero
Cicero
Roman statesman, scholar, and writer
mosaic of Virgil with Clio and Melpomene
Virgil
Roman poet
Tacitus
Tacitus
Roman historian
Catullus, bust in Sirmione, Italy.
Catullus
Roman poet
Livy
Livy
Roman historian
Sextus Propertius
Roman 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