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Born	April 4, 1940 • Copenhagen • Denmark
Died	May 11, 2019 (aged 79) • Copenhagen • Denmark
Notable Works	“Den store fjende” • “Jomfrutur” • “Syg og munter” • “Syv passioner” • “Termush, Atlanterkysten”

Jens Peter Jacobsen

Danish author

Martin Andersen Nexø

Danish author

Henrik Pontoppidan

Danish author

Johannes Carsten Hauch

Danish author

Holger Henrik Herholdt Drachmann

Danish author

Poul Martin Møller

Danish author

Isak Dinesen

Danish author

Meïr Aron Goldschmidt

Danish author

Johannes V. Jensen

Danish author

Tom Kristensen

Danish author and critic

Steen Steensen Blicher

Danish author

Bernhard Severin Ingemann

Danish author

Klaus Rifbjerg

Danish writer

Jeppe Aakjær

Danish author

Hans Christian Branner

Danish author

Karl Adolph Gjellerup

Danish writer

Gustav Wied

Danish author

William Heinesen

Danish Faeroese author

Peter Seeberg

Danish author

Herman Bang

Danish writer

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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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