Ricardo Güiraldes

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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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Plato (left) and Aristotle, detail from School of Athens, fresco by Raphael, 1508-11; in the Stanza della Segnatura, the Vatican. Plato points to the heavens and the realm of Forms, Aristotle to the earth and the realm of things.

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Aphrodite. Greek mythology. Sculpture. Aphrodite is the Greek goddess of love and beauty.

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Saint Lucia Day. Young girl wears Lucia crown (tinsel halo) with candles. Holds Saint Lucia Day currant laced saffron buns (lussekatter or Lucia's cats). Observed December 13 honor virgin martyr Santa Lucia (St. Lucy). Luciadagen, Christmas, Sweden

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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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Born	February 13, 1886 • Buenos Aires • Argentina
Died	October 8, 1927 (aged 41) • Paris • France
Notable Works	“Cuentos de muerte y de sangre” • “Don Segundo Sombra” • “El cencerro de cristal” • “Xaimaca”
Movement / Style	criollismo

Ernesto Sábato

Argentine writer

Adolfo Bioy Casares

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Leopoldo Lugones

Argentine poet

Alfonsina Storni

Argentine writer

Leopoldo Marechal

Argentine author

José Mármol

Argentine writer

Estanislao del Campo

Argentine poet and journalist

Benito Lynch

Argentine author

Rufino Blanco-Fombona

Venezuelan writer

Jorge Luis Borges

Argentine author

Manuel Puig

Argentine author

Julio Cortázar

Argentine author

Juan Gelman

Argentine poet and activist

Tomás Eloy Martínez

Argentine novelist, journalist, and educator

Ariel Dorfman

Chilean author

Manuel Mujica Láinez

Argentine writer

Esteban Echeverría

Argentine writer

Manuel Rojas

Chilean writer

Ezequiel Martínez Estrada

Argentine author

Ricardo Piglia

Argentine author and critic

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

A Study of Poetry

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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