Louis Zukofsky

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Born	January 23, 1904 • New York City • New York
Died	May 12, 1978 (aged 74) • New York
Notable Works	“A”
Movement / Style	objectivism

Robert Pinsky

American poet and critic

Babette Deutsch

American poet, critic, translator, and novelist

Dudley Fitts

American teacher, critic, poet and translator

May Swenson

American poet

Horace Gregory

American poet and critic

Cesare Pavese

Italian author

Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov

Russian author

Elio Vittorini

Italian author

Martin Opitz

German poet

Andrew Lang

British scholar

Ezra Pound

American poet

Paula Gunn Allen

American author and scholar

W.S. Merwin

American poet

H.D.

American poet

Lafcadio Hearn

British-born writer and translator

Ana Castillo

American poet and author

Constance Lindsay Skinner

American writer and historian

Allen Tate

American author

James Weldon Johnson

American writer

Robert Fitzgerald

American poet

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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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