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Young boys working in a thread spinning mill in Macon, Georgia, 1909. Boys are so small they have to climb onto the spinning frame to reach and fix broken threads and put back empty bobbins. Child labor. Industrial revolution

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Born	September 9, 1871 • Yorkshire • England
Died	November 3, 1962 (aged 91) • Ohio
Movement / Style	Georgian poetry

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

British poet and critic

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Leigh Hunt

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William Ernest Henley

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Anthony Munday

English poet, dramatist, pamphleteer, and translator

William Gifford

British editor and scholar

John Lehmann

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A.J.M. Smith

Canadian poet and anthologist

Alice Meynell

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Shenstone, detail of an oil painting by E. Alcock, 1750; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

William Shenstone

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Sir Edwin Arnold

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Geoffrey Grigson

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Alfred Austin

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Nicholas Amhurst

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Siegfried Sassoon

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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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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

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