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Born	October 20, 1914 • near Florence • Italy
Died	February 28, 2005 (aged 90) • Florence • Italy
Movement / Style	Hermeticism • Symbolism

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

Luigi Pirandello

Italian author

Torquato Tasso

Italian poet

Massimo Bontempelli

Italian poet

Giambattista Giraldi

Italian poet and dramatist

Samuel Johnson

English author

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Gotthold Lessing, detail of an oil painting by Georg May, 1768; in the Gleimhaus, Halberstadt, Ger.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

German author

Matthew Arnold

British critic

John Jay Chapman

American writer

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Suzanne Lilar

Belgian author

Johann Christoph Gottsched

German literary critic

Victor Balaguer

Catalan poet and Spanish politician and historian

Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom

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Charles Van Lerberghe

Belgian poet

Giordano Bruno

Italian philosopher

Gabriele D’Annunzio

Italian writer and political leader

Alessandro Manzoni

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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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