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Johan Ludvig Runeberg
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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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Born February 5, 1804 • Pietarsaari • Finland
Died May 6, 1877 (aged 73) • Porvoo • Finland

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Johan Ludvig Runeberg, detail of an engraving by Émile Lassalle.
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Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson.
Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson
Norwegian author
Johannes Ewald, engraving by Johan Frederik Clemens, 1779.
Johannes Ewald
Danish poet
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore
Bengali poet
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Indian author
Dun Karm
Maltese poet
Ferenc Kölcsey
Hungarian poet
Naphtali Herz Imber
Hebrew poet
Bertel Johan Sebastian, Baron Gripenberg
Finnish poet
Enckell
Rabbe Enckell
Finnish poet
Edith Södergran
Swedish-Finnish poet
Franzén, oil painting by J.G. Sandberg, 1828; in Gripsholm Castle, Sweden
Frans Mikael Franzén
Finnish-Swedish poet
John Gay, oil painting by William Aikman; in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
John Gay
British author
Frédéric Mistral, etching, 1864
Frédéric Mistral
French poet
Guillaume de Machaut, detail of a miniature from Oeuvres de Guillaume de Machaut, c. 1370–80; in the Bibliothèque Nationale (Ms. Fr. 1584).
Guillaume de Machaut
French poet and musician
Ernst Moritz Arndt
German writer
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Edna St. Vincent Millay
American writer
Thomas Campion
English poet and musician
Beranger, detail of a lithograph by Metzmacher, 1835
Pierre-Jean de Béranger
French author
Juan del Encina
Spanish author and composer
Thomas Moore, detail of an oil painting by Sir Martin Archer Shee, 1818; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Thomas Moore
Irish author and composer

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