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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 August 1, 1933 (age 91) • Gunsan • South Korea
Notable Works “First Person Sorrowful” • “The Sound of My Waves” • “The Tree Way Travern”

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Han Kang, 2024 Nobel Prize winner for literature
Han Kang
South Korean writer
Rodolfo Gonzales
Rodolfo Gonzales
Mexican American boxer, writer, and civil rights activist
Charlotte Forten Grimké
Charlotte Forten Grimké
American abolitionist and educator
David Unaipon
David Unaipon
Australian inventor, writer, and activist
May Sinclair
May Sinclair
British writer and suffragist
Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Australian author
Han Yongun
Han Yongun
Korean poet
Mahadevi Varma
Indian writer and activist
Moon Jae-In
Moon Jae-In
president of South Korea
Yi Munyŏl
South Korean author
Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr.
American clergyman
Louise Bennett-Coverley
Jamaican folklorist, poet, and radio and television personality
Theodore Bikel
Austrian-born actor. singer, and political activist
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Norwegian author
John Banim
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Antal
Indian poet
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson
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Michelangelo
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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