René Schickele

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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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In this aerial photo, structures are damaged and destroyed October 15, 2005 in Balakot, Pakistan. It is estimated that 90% of the city of Balakot was leveled by the earthquake. The death toll in the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck northern Pakistan on October 8, 2005 is believed to be 38,000 with at least 1,300 more dead in Indian Kashmir. SEE CONTENT NOTES.

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Parsons Weems' Fable, oil on canvas by Grant Wood, 1939; in the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Catalog entry: The historian Mason Locke Weems, commonly known by his clerical title, Parson Weems, pulls back a curtain to point at 6-year-old George Washington. Bearing an adult head and holding an axe, George gazes blankly up at his father, Augustine, who questions his son while holding a partially cut cherry tree. All of this takes place in front of a 20th-century brick building, which Wood modeled after his own home in Iowa. The scene illustrates the fable of Washington and the cherry tree, which Weems invented in 1806 for the first president's biography. Wood playfully suggests the artifice of the tale here, presenting the story in the manner of a costumed stage play rather than a real event. Amid the action, two Black figures pick cherries in the background, a reference to Washington' slaveholding past and a reminder of of what often gets left out in historical mythmaking.

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Born	August 4, 1883 • France
Died	January 31, 1940 (aged 56) • France
Notable Works	“Das Erbe am Rhein” • “Der Fremde” • “Der Ritt ins Leben” • “Hans im Schnakenloch”

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Erich Kästner

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Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Victor Hugo

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Bertolt Brecht

German dramatist

Gerhart Hauptmann

German writer

Franz Werfel

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Clemens Brentano

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Volker Braun

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Ernst Toller

German writer

Paul Ernst

German writer

Friedrich von Spielhagen

German writer

Catulle Mendès

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Franz Ferdinand, Freiherr von Dingelstedt, engraving by A. Weger after a photograph.

Franz Ferdinand, count von Dingelstedt

German writer and producer

Klabund

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Karl von Holtei

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Samuel Johnson

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Smollett, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist, about 1770; in the National Portrait Gallery, London

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Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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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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