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poem. A poet in a Heian period kimono writes Japanese poetry during the Kamo Kyokusui No En Ancient Festival at Jonan-gu shrine on April 29, 2013 in Kyoto, Japan. Festival of Kyokusui-no Utage orignated in 1,182, party Heian era (794-1192).

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Parsons Weems' Fable, oil on canvas by Grant Wood, 1939; in the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Catalog entry: The historian Mason Locke Weems, commonly known by his clerical title, Parson Weems, pulls back a curtain to point at 6-year-old George Washington. Bearing an adult head and holding an axe, George gazes blankly up at his father, Augustine, who questions his son while holding a partially cut cherry tree. All of this takes place in front of a 20th-century brick building, which Wood modeled after his own home in Iowa. The scene illustrates the fable of Washington and the cherry tree, which Weems invented in 1806 for the first president's biography. Wood playfully suggests the artifice of the tale here, presenting the story in the manner of a costumed stage play rather than a real event. Amid the action, two Black figures pick cherries in the background, a reference to Washington' slaveholding past and a reminder of of what often gets left out in historical mythmaking.

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Born	December 24, 1822 • England
Died	April 15, 1888 (aged 65) • Liverpool • England
Notable Works	“Culture and Anarchy” • “Dover Beach” • “Empedocles on Etna” • “Essays in Criticism” • “God and the Bible” • “On Translating Homer” • “On the Study of Celtic Literature” • “Sohrab and Rustum” • “The Forsaken Merman” • “The Scholar Gipsy” • “The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems” • “The Study of Poetry” • “Thyrsis”
Notable Family Members	father Thomas Arnold
Subjects Of Study	English literature • literature • poetry • anarchism • culture

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T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

D.H. Lawrence

D.H. Lawrence

English writer

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Edmund Gosse, detail of an oil painting by John Singer Sargent, 1886; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Sir Edmund Gosse

British critic and writer

Edward Young, detail of an oil painting by Joseph Highmore; in All Souls College, Oxford

Edward Young

English author

Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka

Nigerian author

Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson

English author

Sir Philip Sidney

Sir Philip Sidney

English author and statesman

Algernon Charles Swinburne, watercolour by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1862; in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

English poet

Newman, John Henry

St. John Henry Newman

British theologian

Graham Greene

Graham Greene

British author

Southey, detail of a pencil and watercolour portrait by R. Hancock, 1796; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

Robert Southey

English author

Harold Pinter

British dramatist

Chesterton, G.K.

G.K. Chesterton

British author

Lamb, Mary Ann; Lamb, Charles

Charles Lamb

British author

Sir J. C. Squire

British journalist and author

Robert Williams Buchanan

English author

William Butler Yeats, c. 1915.

William Butler Yeats

Irish author and poet

Quasimodo

Salvatore Quasimodo

Italian poet

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