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Nezami Neẓāmī recounting the story of Alexander the Great. Gäncä Neẓāmī: Khamseh illustration
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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
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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Also Known As Elyās Yūsof Neẓāmī Ganjavī • Niẓāmī
Born c.1141 • Gäncä • Azerbaijan
Died 1209 • Gäncä • Azerbaijan

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Nezami
Neẓāmī recounting the story of Alexander the Great.
Gäncä
Neẓāmī: Khamseh illustration
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Nāṣer-e Khusraw
Persian author
Rūmī
Sufi mystic and poet
Ferdowsī (lower left corner) with three poets in a garden, miniature from a Persian manuscript, 17th century; in the British Library
Ferdowsī
Persian poet
Omar Khayyam
Persian poet and astronomer
Saʿdī, detail of a 17th-century miniature from a manuscript (1581) of the Gulistān; in the British Library (Royal Asiatic Society loan 5).
Saʿdī
Persian poet
Ḥāfeẓ
Ḥāfeẓ
Persian author
Farīd al-Dīn ʿAṭṭār
Persian poet
Anvarī
Persian poet
Khaqani
Khāqānī
Persian poet
Jāmī
Persian poet and scholar
Sanāʾī
Persian poet
Bābā Ṭāher ʿOryān
Persian author
Rūdakī
Persian poet
ʿIrāqī
Persian poet
Ṣāʾib
Persian poet
Daqīqī
Persian poet
Kemalpaşazâde
Turkish historian
Mehmed bin Süleyman Fuzuli
Turkish author
Nesimi, Seyid Imadeddin
Seyid İmadeddin Nesimi
poet
ʿAlī Shīr Navāʾī
Turkish poet

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