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Ibn Gabirol

Ibn Gabirol

Jewish poet and philosopher

Judah ha-Levi

Hebrew poet

Saʿadia ben Joseph

Jewish exegete and philosopher

Isaac ben Solomon Luria

Jewish mystic

Rashi, from a French postage stamp.

Rashi

French religious scholar

Haim Naḥman Bialik.

Haim Naḥman Bialik

Russian-Jewish writer

S.Y. Agnon

S.Y. Agnon

Israeli author

Elijah Bokher Levita

Italian grammarian

Micah Joseph Berdichevsky

Russian author

Amos Oz

Amos Oz

Israeli author

Mendele Moykher Sforim

Russian-Jewish author

Moses ibn Ezra

Spanish-Jewish poet

Reuchlin, Johannes

Johannes Reuchlin

German humanist

Amichai, Yehuda

Yehuda Amichai

Israeli author

Goldfaden, Avrom

Avrom Goldfaden

Jewish author

Uri Zvi Greenberg

Israeli poet

Dunash Ben Labrat

Hebrew poet

Joseph Kimhi

European grammarian

Aharon Appelfeld

Aharon Appelfeld

Israeli author

Aaron David Gordon

Russian author and philosopher

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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:

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