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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:
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Born May 10, 1885 • Koblenz • Germany
Died November 28, 1970 (aged 85) • Germany • (Anniversary in 7 days)
Notable Works “Berlin in Monte Carlo” • “Bonaparte” • “Ein Geschlecht” • “Offiziere” • “Vor der Entscheidung” • “Way of Sacrifice” • “Zero”
Movement / Style Expressionism

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Werfel, Franz
Franz Werfel
German writer
Toller
Ernst Toller
German writer
portrait of Klabund by Orlik
Klabund
German writer
Anton Wildgans
Austrian dramatist and poet
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.
Friedrich Schiller
German writer
Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Ger.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Andreas Gryphius, 17th-century engraving.
Andreas Gryphius
German author
Nelly Sachs.
Nelly Sachs
German writer
Platen, August, Graf von
August, Graf von Platen
German writer
Johann Christoph Gottsched
German literary critic
Schickele
René Schickele
German writer
Sachs, Hans
Hans Sachs
German poet and composer
Volker Braun
German author
Christian Morgenstern
German poet
Kästner, 1970
Erich Kästner
German author
Gerstenberg, engraving
Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg
German writer
Georg Philipp Harsdörfer
German 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