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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:
Poetry: First Lines
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Also Known As Johan Henric Kellgren
Born December 1, 1751 • Sweden
Died April 20, 1795 (aged 43) • Stockholm • Sweden
Notable Works “Gustaf Wasa”

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Lidner, detail of an oil painting by Carl-Fredrik von Breda; in Gripsholm Castle, Sweden
Bengt Lidner
Swedish poet
Artur Lundkvist
Swedish writer and critic
Dalin
Olof von Dalin
Swedish author
Lenngren, Anna Maria
Anna Maria Lenngren
Swedish poet
T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot
American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic
Pound, Ezra
Ezra Pound
American poet
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.
Hugo von Hofmannsthal
Austrian author
Stein, Gertrude
Gertrude Stein
American writer
Kay Boyle
American author
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Argentine author
Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens
American poet
Karl Kraus
Austrian writer
Randolph Stow
Australian writer
Joan Aiken.
Joan Aiken
British author
Marianne Moore, 1957, photograph by Imogen Cunningham.
Marianne Moore
American poet
George Woodcock
Canadian writer
Massimo Bontempelli
Italian poet
Peter Cornelius, engraving by Franz de Rohden, 1846
Peter Cornelius
German composer and author
Giovanni Battista Casti
Italian 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:
Poetry: First Lines
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