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Born	December 3, 1800
Died	February 8, 1849 (aged 48)
Notable Works	“Sonetni venec”
Movement / Style	Romanticism

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Jørgen Engebretsen Moe

Norwegian author

Victor Hugo

French writer

Lord Byron

British poet

Lamartine, detail of an oil painting by François Gérard; in the Musée National de Versailles et des Trianons

Alphonse de Lamartine

French poet, historian, and statesman

Théophile Gautier

French author

António Feliciano de Castilho

Portuguese poet and translator

Jónas Hallgrímsson

Icelandic poet

Aribau, oil painting by J.E. Rull; in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Jorge de Barcelona

Buenaventura Carles Aribau

Spanish author

William Blake

British writer and artist

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

Aleksandr Pushkin

Russian author

William Wordsworth

English author

John Keats

British poet

Percy Bysshe Shelley

English poet

Vigny, lithograph by Antoine Maurin, 1832

Alfred-Victor, count de Vigny

French author

Sir Walter Scott

Scottish writer

Robert Schumann

German composer

Mikhail Lermontov

Russian writer

Adam Mickiewicz

Polish poet

Thomas Chatterton

British poet

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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

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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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