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Born c.15 BCE • Thrace
Died 50 • Italy
Notable Works “Romulus”
Opitz, Martin
Martin Opitz
German poet
Coornhert, Dirck Volckertszoon
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert
Dutch author
Marc-Antoine de Muret
French author
Horace, bronze medal, 4th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Horace
Roman poet
Cicero
Cicero
Roman statesman, scholar, and writer
mosaic of Virgil with Clio and Melpomene
Virgil
Roman poet
Catullus, bust in Sirmione, Italy.
Catullus
Roman poet
Sextus Propertius
Roman poet
Lucretius
Lucretius
Latin poet and philosopher
Martial
Roman poet
Juvenal
Juvenal
Roman poet
St. Ambrose
St. Ambrose
bishop of Milan
Albius Tibullus
Roman poet
Quintus Ennius
Roman author
Lucius Apuleius
Roman philosopher and scholar
Calpurnius Siculus
Roman poet
Lucan
Roman author
Statius
Roman poet
Magnus Felix Ennodius
Italian bishop and writer
Decimus Magnus Ausonius
Latin poet and rhetorician

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