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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
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Famous Poets and Poetic Form
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Born March 16, 1581 • Amsterdam • Netherlands
Died May 21, 1647 (aged 66) • The Hague • Netherlands
Notable Works “Grandida” • “Nederlandse historiën”

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Herman Teirlinck
Flemish author
Hugo Grotius
Hugo Grotius
Dutch statesman and scholar
Vondel, detail of an engraving after a portrait by Joachim Sandrart, 1635
Joost van den Vondel
Dutch writer
Hella S. Haasse
Dutch author
Coornhert, Dirck Volckertszoon
Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert
Dutch author
Martinus Nijhoff
Dutch poet
Bredero, engraving by H. Goltzius, 1618
Gerbrand Adriaenszoon Bredero
Dutch author
Henriëtte Goverdina Anna Roland Holst-van der Schalk
Dutch poet and socialist
Heinsius, Daniël
Daniël Heinsius
Dutch poet
Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Tobias Smollett
Scottish novelist
Ludvig Holberg
Ludvig Holberg, Baron Holberg
Scandinavian author
Mercy Otis Warren
Mercy Otis Warren
American writer and historian
Allen Curnow
New Zealand author
Constance Lindsay Skinner
American writer and historian
Albrecht Rodenbach
Flemish writer
Jan van Hout
Dutch scholar
Heijermans, crayon drawing by Jan Toorop, 1914
Herman Heijermans
Dutch author
Jan de Hartog
Dutch-American author
Farkas Bolyai
Hungarian mathematician and writer
Iancu Văcărescu
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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:
Poetry: First Lines
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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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry