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S.E.K. Mqhayi
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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
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
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Poetry: First Lines
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Also Known As Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi
Born December 1, 1875 • South Africa • (Birthday in 7 days)
Died July 29, 1945 (aged 69) • South Africa
Notable Works “Ityala lamawele”
Subjects Of Study Xhosa language • grammar • orthography • syntax
Morris-Jones, oil painting by Christopher Williams, 1924; in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Sir John Morris-Jones
Welsh author, scholar, and educator
Stuart Cloete
South African writer
Ienăchiƫă Văcărescu
Romanian author
Michel Houellebecq
Michel Houellebecq
French author
Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed
American author
Paul Auster
Paul Auster
American author
Ha Jin
Ha Jin
Chinese American writer
Sarah Josepha Hale.
Sarah Josepha Hale
American author
Simms, detail of an engraving published by Johnson, Fry and Company, 1861
William Gilmore Simms
American novelist
Merezhkovsky
Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky
Russian author
Novelist Muriel Spark
Muriel Spark
British writer
Anna Cora Mowatt, engraving from a daguerreotype.
Anna Cora Mowatt
American writer
Carl Sandburg.
Carl Sandburg
American poet and historian
Edgar Lee Masters
Edgar Lee Masters
American poet
Nick Joaquin
Filipino author
Karadžić, Vuk Stefanović
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić
Serbian language scholar
John Wain
British critic and writer
June Jordan.
June Jordan
American author
Ibn Janāḥ
Spanish-Jewish grammarian
D.M. Thomas
British author

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