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Also Known As	Yankev Glatshteyn
Born	August 20, 1896 • Lublin • Poland
Died	November 19, 1971 (aged 75) • New York City • New York
Notable Works	essay • “Poezye”
Movement / Style	Di Inzikhistn

Czesław Miłosz

Polish-American author, translator, critic, and diplomat

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Théophile Gautier

French author

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

Constance Lindsay Skinner

American writer and historian

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

American poet and journalist

Carl Sandburg

American poet and historian

Allen Tate

American author

James Weldon Johnson

American writer

Louis Zukofsky

American poet

Babette Deutsch

American poet, critic, translator, and novelist

Marcel Reich-Ranicki

German columnist and television personality

Karl Shapiro

American poet

Eunice Tietjens

poet, novelist, and editor

Isaac Bashevis Singer

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Mario Vargas Llosa

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Wole Soyinka

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Tibor Déry

Hungarian writer

François Mauriac

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G.K. Chesterton

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

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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

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