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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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World Poetry Day
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9 Obscure Literary Terms
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Periods of American Literature
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Also Known As Václav Danšovský • Václav Ignác Jebavý
Born September 13, 1868 • Austria-Hungary
Died March 25, 1929 (aged 60) • Czech Republic
Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera
Czech writer
Miroslav Holub
Czech poet, pathologist and immunologist
Seifert, 1984
Jaroslav Seifert
Czech author
Karel Hynek Mácha
Czech poet
Karel Havlíček Borovský
Czech writer
Petr Bezruč
Czech poet
Václav Havel
Václav Havel
president of Czech Republic
Karel Čapek, 1938.
Karel Čapek
Czech writer
Klíma, Ivan
Ivan Klíma
Czech author
Emil František Burian
Czech author and composer
Hašek, Jaroslav
Jaroslav Hašek
Czech writer
Bohumil Hrabal
Czech author
František Langer
Czech writer
Jirásek, Alois
Alois Jirásek
Czech writer
Augusto de Campos
Brazilian poet and critic
Antal
Indian poet
Farkas Bolyai
Hungarian mathematician and writer
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen
Norwegian author
John Banim
Irish author
Maggie Nelson
American writer

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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