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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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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Italian Renaissance painter from Florence. Engraving by Cosomo Colombini (d. 1812) after a Leonardo self portrait. Ca. 1500.

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An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.

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Title: Senate Square, St. Petersburg, December 14, 1825: repression of the troop mutiny - watercolor by Carl Ivanovitch Kollman, 1825 depicts Decembrist uprising clashing with cavalry, with spectators watching. (new style December 26, 1825) Europe. Saint

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Also Known As	Patrick John MacAllister Anderson
Born	August 4, 1915 • England
Died	March 17, 1979 (aged 63) • England
Notable Works	“Over the Alps: Reflections on Travel and Travel Writing” • “Return to Canada: Selected Poems” • “The Colour as Naked”

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W.H. Auden

W. H. Auden

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Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling

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Graham Greene

Graham Greene

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Michael Ondaatje

Michael Ondaatje

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Sue Goyette

Canadian poet and novelist

Andrew Motion

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Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Novelist Muriel Spark

Muriel Spark

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Timothy Findley

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MacDiarmid

Hugh MacDiarmid

Scottish poet

Sylvia Townsend Warner

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A.J.M. Smith

Canadian poet and anthologist

John Glassco

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Ronald Duncan

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Dorothy Livesay

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Wilfred Campbell

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Sir Edward Howard Marsh

British scholar

Robert W. Service

Robert W. Service

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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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