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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:
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Also Known As Ivor Armstrong Richards
Born February 26, 1893 • Cheshire • England
Died September 7, 1979 (aged 86) • Cambridge • England
Notable Works “Practical Criticism” • “Principles of Literary Criticism” • “The Meaning of Meaning”
Movement / Style New Criticism
Subjects Of Study literary criticism
William Empson
British critic and poet
F.R. Leavis
British critic
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
English author
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
Portrait of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
British poet and critic
Portrait of poet Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
English author
Matthew Arnold
Matthew Arnold
British critic
Poet John Dryden
John Dryden
British author
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
English poet
Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Philip Sidney
English author and statesman
William Congreve, oil painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1709; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Congreve
English dramatist
Algernon Charles Swinburne, watercolour by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1862; in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
English poet
Chesterton, G.K.
G.K. Chesterton
British author
Robert Graves
British writer
Leigh Hunt, detail of a watercolour and gouache on ivory by Margaret Gillies, 1838–46; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Leigh Hunt
British author
Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Sir Herbert Read.
Sir Herbert Read
British art critic
title page of George Puttenham's The Arte of English Poesie
George Puttenham
English writer
William Ernest Henley
William Ernest Henley
British writer

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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