Miguel Torga

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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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Also Known As	Adolfo Correia da Rocha
Born	August 12, 1907 • Portugal
Died	January 17, 1995 (aged 87) • Coimbra • Portugal
Notable Works	“Diário” • “Presença”

Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Manuel Ferreira

Portuguese author

Mário de Sá-Carneiro

Portuguese author

Tibor Déry

Hungarian writer

Muriel Spark

British writer

Sylvia Townsend Warner

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José Régio

Portuguese author and critic

Charlotte Endymion Porter

American editor

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

Theodore Dreiser

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Vladimir Nabokov

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Rudyard Kipling

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J.R.R. Tolkien

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Gabriele D’Annunzio

Italian writer and political leader

Wole Soyinka

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Günter Grass

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Janet Frame

New Zealand writer

Sylvia Plath

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Paul Auster

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Ivan Bunin

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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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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:

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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

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